MSNBC Hosts Agree: Elizabeth Warren Should Challenge Hillary Clinton
MSNBC Hosts Agree: Elizabeth Warren Should Challenge Hillary Clinton (February 9, 2015)
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers keynote address during Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women on February 24, 2015 in Santa Clara, California Justin Sullivan, Getty Images
While Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, she did not have a government email address and used only a personal email account for government correspondence, according to a report by the New York Times.
Citing State Department officials, the Times reported that Clinton, who used her personal account for the entire four years she was secretary, "may have violated federal requirements that officials' correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record."
Deputy State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf defended Clinton in a statement issued Monday evening, saying, "The State Department has long had access to a wide array of Secretary Clinton's records -- including emails between her and Department officials with state.gov accounts."
Last year, the State Department contacted former secretaries of state, including Clinton, to request that they submit "any records in their possession for proper preservation" in accordance with new guidelines from the National Archives and Records Administration. Clinton complied and sent in emails "spanning her time at the Department," and in the last month, after reviewing the emails, the department sent 300 of the emails to the Select Committee, which had requested the emails.
Federal law dictates that letters and emails written by officials like the secretary of state are to be considered government records.
Harf also stated that John Kerry is the first secretary of state whose primary work email is a state.gov account.
Jeb Bush, who recently released his own emails from his time as Florida governor and is mulling a run for the presidency, was quick to Tweet a response to Clinton's emails, calling for more of her emails: "Transparency matters. Unclassified @HillaryClinton emails should be released."
President Obama famously uses a secure Blackberry for his emails, which are all being recorded by the government. Bill Clinton has said he sent only two emails while he was president -- one to U.S. troops in the Adriatic and the other to John Glenn on the occasion of his 77th birthday, which he was celebrating in outer space. "I figured it was okay if Congress subpoenaed those," the former president said at a conference, according to Fast Company.
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Her violations of public records rules are just the latest indication that her White House would have little regard for the people's right to information.
On January 13, 2009, Hillary Clinton attended her first confirmation hearing as a Secretary of State nominee. The same day, with Bush officials still under fire for using private email accounts to circumvent public records laws, someone registered Clintonemail.com, a domain that now appears to be at the center of a scandal. "Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department," The New York Times reports in a story published late Monday. "Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act."
This was willful, flagrant disregard for public records rules.
Many of those emails "would not have been located in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, subpoenas or other document searches," Politico reports.
The revelations reflect poorly on Clinton and her excessively loyal aides.
And they suggests that many in the Obama Administration, where her behavior was widely known to be verboten, did nothing upon getting official business emailed to them from Clinton's personal account. She was allowed to break the rules for years, much as Karl Rove was permitted to do so by his bosses in the Bush Administration.
What made her confident that she would get away with it? Perhaps she figured that if Sandy Berger could pilfer the National Archives and escape with probation, she could surely hide a few years worth of emails without any repercussions.
For those who've forgotten that jaw-dropping story:
According to reports from the Inspector General of the National Archives and the staff of the House of Representatives' Government Operations Committee, Mr. Berger, while acting as former President Clinton's designated representative to the commission investigating the attacks of September 11, 2001, illegally took confidential documents from the Archives on more than one occasion. He folded documents in his clothes, snuck them out of the Archives building, and stashed them under a construction trailer nearby until he could return, retrieve them, and later cut them up. After he was caught, he lied to the investigators and tried to shift blame to Archive employees.
Contrary to his initial denials and later excuses, Berger clearly intended from the outset to remove sensitive material from the Archives. He used the pretext of making and receiving private phone calls to get time alone with confidential material, although rules governing access dictated that someone from the Archives staff must be present. He took bathroom breaks every half-hour to provide further opportunity to remove and conceal documents... What could have been important enough for Berger to take the risks he did?
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Hillary Clinton's Contempt for Transparency
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Emails sent by Clinton from her personal account weren't archived in official government records.
By Josh Gerstein
3/2/15 11:04 PM EST
Thousands of emails Hillary Clinton generated as secretary of state were not archived as official government records because she used a private email account to conduct State Department business, the State Department acknowledged Monday.
Aides to the former secretary of state turned over 55,000 pages of emails from her personal account to the State Department in December at its request, a department official said.
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Clintons use of the personal account for work-related emails and the State Departments effort to gain control over the information were first reported by The New York Times. Clinton did not use a State Department email account, the paper reported.
Last year, the Department sent a letter to representatives of former secretaries of state requesting they submit any records in their possession for proper preservation. In response to our request, Secretary Clinton provided the Department with emails spanning her time at the Department, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
The Times story suggested that the private email trove came to light as the State Department worked to respond to requests for information from a special House committee probing the deaths of four Americans in a 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private e-mail account for her official government business when she was secretary of state and did not routinely preserve and turn over those e-mails for government records collection, the State Department said Monday.
Clinton has turned over thousands of e-mails to the department from her private account, a step that was first reported by the New York Times late Monday. The private account came to light when the department sought records from Clinton and other former secretaries who have held the post during the e-mail age.
Some 300 of Clintons recovered e-mails were then turned over to a congressional committee investigating the 2012 deaths of four Americans at U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Last year, the Department sent a letter to representatives of former secretaries of state requesting they submit any records in their possession for proper preservation, Psaki said in a statement. In response to our request, Secretary Clinton provided the Department with e-mails spanning her time at the Department. After the State Department reviewed those e-mails, we produced about 300 e-mails responsive to recent requests from the Select Committee.
A spokesman for Clinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night. The spokesman, Nick Merrill, told the Times that Clinton has complied with the letter and the spirit of federal rules on the retention of official documents.
It was not clear why Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, created the private account. But the practice appears to bolster long-standing criticism that Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have not been transparent.
Hillary Clinton should release her e-mails, said Kristy Campbell, a spokeswoman for former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who is also weighing a presidential bid. Hopefully she hasnt already destroyed them.
Campbell noted that Bush created a Web site, at http://www.jebemails.com, providing public access to his electronic communications while in office. Governor Bush believes transparency is a critical part of public service and of governing, she said in a statement.
Clintons aides reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal e-mails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department, the Times reported. In total, 55,000 pages of e-mails were turned over, the newspaper reported.
Clinton was not the first secretary of state to use a private account. The State Department said Clintons successor as top diplomat, John F. Kerry, is the first secretary to use a standard government e-mail address ending in state.gov.
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