US State Department Releases 3000 Hillary Clinton e-Mails
The US State Department has released roughly 3,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s correspondence from Y 2009, her 1st year as the Country’s top diplomat.
The e-Mails, covering March through December of that year, were posted online Tuesday evening, as part of a court mandate that the agency release batches of Clinton’s private correspondence from her time as secretary of state every 30 days starting 30 June .
Mrs. Clinton’s e-Mail is a major issue in her early presidential campaign, as Republicans accuse her of using a private account rather than the standard government address to avoid public scrutiny of her correspondence. As the controversy continues, Mrs. Clinton has seen ratings of her character and trustworthiness drop in polling.
The monthly releases all but guarantee a slow drip of revelations from the e-Mails throughout Mrs. Clinton’s primary campaign, complicating her efforts to put the issue to rest. The goal is for the department to publicly unveil 55,000 pgs of her emails by 29 January 2016, just 3 days before Iowa caucus goers will cast the 1st votes in the Democratic primary contest. Mrs. Clinton has said she wants the department to release the emails as soon as possible.
“There’s been nothing but nearly nonstop work on this” since the last group of emails was released, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday at briefing in which he acknowledged the inconvenient timing. “You have to understand the enormity of the task here. It is a lot of stuff to go through.”
Mrs. Clinton turned her e-Mails over to the State Department last year, nearly 2 years after leaving the Obama administration. She has said she got rid of about 30,000 e-Mails she deemed exclusively personal. Only she and perhaps a small circle of advisers know the content of the discarded communications.
Though Mrs. Clinton say her home system included “numerous safeguards,” it is not clear if it used encryption software to communicate securely with government e-Mail services. That would have protected her communications from the prying eyes of foreign spies or hackers.
Also, the State Department on Tuesday provided more than 3,600 pgs of documents to the Republican-led House committee investigating the deadly Y 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, including e-Mails of Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations at the time, and former Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan.
In a letter to the committee, the department said “to the extent the materials produced relate to your inquiry, we do not believe they change the fundamental facts of the attacks on Benghazi.”
The House committee will hold a public meeting next week to vote on whether to release the transcript of longtime Hillary Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal’s deposition. Mr. Blumenthal testified behind closed doors earlier this month, and Democrats have been pressing the panel to release the full transcript.
The committee, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), has released Blumenthal’s e-Mails with Mrs. Clinton.
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