Posted on 03/11/2015 7:22:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emerged before a horde of press at the United Nations today to defend herself over using a personal email address while in the office — and defended her role as arbiter of what emails were official, thus required to be turned over, and which were personal and could be trashed.
Clinton has been under fire for revelations that she only used personal email and a home-based server while serving as the nation’s top diplomat. A late-night tweet nearly a week ago — “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.” — didn’t calm the controversy.
She began the press conference pitching for women’s rights initiatives and slamming Senate Republicans for interfering in President Obama’s nuclear negotiations with the Iranians.
The first question, in UN custom that favors the international press corps, went to Turkish television — but the question was about her emails.
“When I got to work as secretary of State I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department,” Clinton said, noting that she didn’t want to juggle multiple email devices.
Looking back, she said, a second phone and email would have been wise “but at the time this didn’t seem like an issue.”
“I saw it as a matter of convenience.”
She contended that the “vast majority” of her emails “went to government employees at their government addresses,” so she assumed that the email would be stored in government records on the receiving end.
When asked for her emails by the State Department, Clinton said she “responded right away” and “provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related,” even though “I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority of them.”
Clinton said her team sorted through more than 60,000 emails and determined about half of them to be work-related. She said those work emails turned over to the State Department came out to 55,000 printed pages.
“At the end I chose not to keep my private personal emails,” she said, which included topics such as her daughter Chelsea’s wedding and “yoga routines.”
“No one wants their personal emails made public,” Clinton stressed, adding that she thinks “most people understand that and respect that privacy.”
As far as official State Department correspondence, Clinton said she’s “very proud” of her work as secretary of State that they reflect. “And I look forward to people being able to see that for themselves,” she said.
“I want it all out there,” Clinton stressed, adding that she followed rules on using personal discretion to determine what was a personal email and “did not” delete any government correspondence. “In fact, my direction to conduct the thorough investigation was to err on the side of providing anything that could be possibly viewed as work-related.”
“…That doesn’t mean they will be by the State Department once the State Department goes through them, but out of an abundance of caution and care, you know, we wanted to send that message unequivocally.”
She said she’s “very confident of the process that we conducted” and looks forward to people getting “unprecedented insight into a high government official’s” daily duties after the work emails are released — “which I think will be quite interesting.”
“Looking back it would have been probably smarter to have used two devices,” she said, but “I have no doubt that we’ve done absolutely what we should have done.”
“We have more than met the requests from the State Department.”
And the personal server in her home? Clinton was unyielding when asked if she would allow an independent third-party investigator probe the server.
She said it was set up for President Clinton’s home office and includes “personal communications between my husband and me.”
“The server will remain private,” she declared.
Clinton said “there were no security breaches” of the server, with the premises guarded by the Secret Service.
“I did not email any classified information to anyone on my personal email,” she said.
Separately, Clinton was asked about donations to the Clinton foundation from countries that abuse women, as she was at the UN lobbying for women’s rights. “I’m very proud of work that foundation does; we are very clear about where we stand on all of these issues,” Clinton responded, adding “there can’t be any mistake” regarding her passion for women’s rights and people who support foundation “know well” what they stand for.
Turkish television asked Clinton if she felt her email scandal would receive different attention if she was a man.
Clinton smiled. “I will leave that to others to answer,” she replied.
The white hut said hillary’s emails contained classified info. How can that remain “personal” in the face of existing subpoenas?
Among my unanswered questions from her dog and pony show are:
1. Why did she delete thousands of personal emails as part of this process of getting the official emails to the State Department?
2. If the personal emails have been deleted, then why is the server going to remain in her possession? Why can’t she turn over the server to the government authorities, if all the personal email has been deleted anyway?
The server is a matter of the highest national security and must be preserved in official hands.
It saddens me greatly to think there are tens of millions who will vote for this corrupt thug to lead the country for no other reason than she’s female.
The White Mosque and Her Majesty/Huma had a plan
to swap a raped Ambassador for the Blind Sheik.
So far, it is acceptable to the EXEMPT 114th,
just as it was cheered by the corrupt EXEMPT 113th.
RE: It saddens me greatly to think there are tens of millions who will vote for this corrupt thug to lead the country for no other reason than she’s female.
Other reasons —
1) She’s Democrat.
2) The Clinton name is familiar.
Remember what she did to the WH travel agency employees? She couldn't just fire them, she had to destroy them.
Remember how no one in the West Wing was allowed to make eye-contact with her or speak to her without being spoken to first? And how everyone was expected to scurry into offices and cubes and stay out of sight whenever she was present?
No WAY she is releasing that server. It has photos of Bill’s many dalliances, has all the accounts for Saudi, Chinese and Indonesian money, and tells where the bodies are buried.
She is so tone deaf. It’s like Ron Burgundy reading “FY, San Diego” from the teleprompter.
Another question, is it more convenient to setup, secure, and maintain servers than to sign on to an existing one, or are you a stupid clueless beeoch?
Her server is probably infested with malware and viruses. Every government spy agency in the world probably has code on that server.
Deleting an email doesn't really remove it from the drive. Data tends to linger on drives unless and until the drive is destroyed ("crashes" in Obamunist parlance) or is thoroughly and professionally cleaned (which would be easy for qualified people to detect.)
What was it the special prosecutor she worked for say about firing her?
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THREE POINTS
(1) we have Hillary on tape ticking off the number of electronic devices she uses. Fox aired an interview wherein Hillary tells a tech conference in California: “I have, you know, an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone and Blackberry.”.....
(2) Fox's Ed Henry reported an interview where Hillary said she deals with all the Technology in her life by having "TWO PHONES."
(3) All of Hillary's electronics were "government-issue" -- meaning they were paid for by taxpayers. She dooesn't get to keep government property.
ERGO, TAXPAYERS DEMAND TO KNOW:
<><> all govt-issue electronics are supposed to be returned ....did Hillary return her electronics?
<><> If she did not return her electronics when she left state....we demand she return them now.
<><> an official record of her tax-paid electronics exists...OMB should have the details.
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FREEPER ACTION: Call your Congressman---demand to know the details of Hillary's electronics.
How does she know there were no security breaches???
She said that the secret service guards her property in New York, so due to that, there were no security breaches.
Does this woman understand anything about how computers and computer networks operate? I wish some reporters had asked obvious follow up questions, such as, she is talking about the physical security of the server, but hackers on a computer network are able to gain access to other people’s systems. Would love to hear her answer to that.
Allow me to rephrase - it saddens me greatly that there are tens of millions of voters who will find the appeal to gender solidarity Hillary clearly plans as the primary plank in her campaign attractive enough to vote for the corrupt slug.
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