hillary emails – charles' log

Source:bluenationreview.com

Author:Shawn Drury

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Despite what Republican presidential candidates may say, Hillary Clinton did not do anything illegal with her emails while Secretary of State. And she’s definitely not being investigated for doing anything illegal.

Earlier this week, the Justice Department responded to a request by a conservative group that wanted to review messages Clinton may have sent about a video the State Department broadcast in Pakistan. The response read, in part:

“There is no question that former Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails without agency supervision — she appropriately could have done so even if she were working on a government server. Under policies issue both by the National Archives and Records Administration and the State Department, individual officers and employees are permitted and expected to exercise judgment to determine what constitutes a federal record.”

One would think this would close the door on any subsequent inquiries, but despite facts to the contrary, Republicans continue to deny climate change and promote conspiracy theories about Benghazi. As such, the Justice Department’s findings won’t stop a senate committee from calling former Clinton aides to testify about how she managed her email.

Thank goodness they’re focusing on the important issues of the day.

See:http://bluenationreview.com/justice-department-finds-in-hillary-clintons-favor-on-email-question/

Source: hillary.com

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Here are the four things you need to know about Hillary Clinton’s email use during her time at the State Department.

Hillary takes responsibility for her decision to use a personal account, and the challenges it has created.
Her use of a private email account was allowed under State Department rules.
Nothing she sent or received was marked classified.
She provided all of her work-related emails to the State Department.

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As the State Department has confirmed, there was no rule that prohibited Hillary from having a private email account like she used during her time at State. It was Hillary’s practice to email government officials on their official .gov accounts so that her messages were preserved within email archives. It was only after she left the State Department that regulations were changed. Nothing Hillary sent or received on her email account was marked “classified” at the time. Before each release of her emails, the State Department goes through a process that allows other agencies to review the emails. As is the case whenever any records are made public for the first time, sometimes agencies disagree about what should be classified, and material that was unclassified at the time can get upgraded to “classified” by other agencies during this stage.

Transparency is important. That’s why Hillary gave all of her work-related emails (more than 30,000) and her email server to the government. She’s making every effort to cooperate and to answer the important questions raised by the public, and to work with the Benghazi Committee, asking that her hearing be public so that the American people can hear their questions and her answers.