9-27-2015
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| Hillary Clinton said her ongoing email scandal, which has caused her polls to take a dip, reminded her of the Clinton scandals of the 1990s |
Hillary Clinton suggested that her email scandal, which has caused her poll numbers to take a dive, is just another assault from the right-wing, like she and her husband endured through the '90s.
On Sunday's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd asked the Democratic hopeful if she decided to use a homebrew server to keep her emails out of the hands of Republicans, congressional investigators and those filing Freedom of Information Act requests.
'Another conspiracy theory?' Clinton said. 'It's totally ridiculous.'
Clinton noted that her emails were indeed subject to FOIA, which is how the Benghazi committee was able to get ahold of them, even before Clinton's lawyers went through the 'exhaustive process' and handed the bulk of them over to State.
'I have, as you're rightly pointing out, been involved from the receiving side, in a lot of these accusations,' Clinton continued. 'In fact, as you might remember during the '90s there were a lot of them. All of them turned out to be not true. That was the outcome.'
Clinton reminded Todd she was able to win voters over anyway when she ran for U.S. Senate in 2000.
'They overlooked all of that and they looked at my record and they looked at what I would do for them and I was elected Senator, after going through years of this kind of back and forth,' she said. 'And it is regrettable. But it's part of the system.'
The latest update in the Clinton email scandal is a report that came out Friday from the Associated Press that said a new email exchange was found, between Clinton and General David Petraeus, that she previously didn't turn over to the State Department.
The exchange calls into question when, exactly, Clinton started using that particular personal email address. The State Department's record of Clinton's emails begins on March 18, 2009, two months into her tenure as secretary of state. But the new emails from January and February showed she was using the address starting as early as January 28th. Previously Clinton said she was using an older AT&T Blackberry account she no longer had access to.
Source: DailyMail
On Sunday's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd asked the Democratic hopeful if she decided to use a homebrew server to keep her emails out of the hands of Republicans, congressional investigators and those filing Freedom of Information Act requests.
'Another conspiracy theory?' Clinton said. 'It's totally ridiculous.'
Clinton noted that her emails were indeed subject to FOIA, which is how the Benghazi committee was able to get ahold of them, even before Clinton's lawyers went through the 'exhaustive process' and handed the bulk of them over to State.
'I have, as you're rightly pointing out, been involved from the receiving side, in a lot of these accusations,' Clinton continued. 'In fact, as you might remember during the '90s there were a lot of them. All of them turned out to be not true. That was the outcome.'
Clinton reminded Todd she was able to win voters over anyway when she ran for U.S. Senate in 2000.
'They overlooked all of that and they looked at my record and they looked at what I would do for them and I was elected Senator, after going through years of this kind of back and forth,' she said. 'And it is regrettable. But it's part of the system.'
The latest update in the Clinton email scandal is a report that came out Friday from the Associated Press that said a new email exchange was found, between Clinton and General David Petraeus, that she previously didn't turn over to the State Department.
The exchange calls into question when, exactly, Clinton started using that particular personal email address. The State Department's record of Clinton's emails begins on March 18, 2009, two months into her tenure as secretary of state. But the new emails from January and February showed she was using the address starting as early as January 28th. Previously Clinton said she was using an older AT&T Blackberry account she no longer had access to.
Source: DailyMail
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