NYT - March 7, 2016: “......WILL THIS BE A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE?
It seems likely to linger into 2016. The story fits with critics’ longstanding portrayal of Clinton as secretive and operating above the rules.
For example, it recalls the mystery of the missing Rose Law Firm records during the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton.
The billing records for some of her work as a lawyer in Arkansas were subpoenaed in the investigation of the Clintons’ Whitewater land deal. The papers were missing for nearly two years before the Clintons said they had unexpectedly turned up in a storage area in the residential portion of the White House.
Clinton was called to testify about the billing records before a federal grand jury — an inauspicious first for a first lady.
Her name also was sometimes caught up in the ethics and legal controversies during the Clinton presidency that culminated in Bill Clinton’s impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Recently, she has also faced questions about her family’s charitable foundation taking money from foreign governments while she was running the State Department.”....
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/07/us/politics/ap-us-clinton-emails-news-guide.html?_r=0