Walker Rips Clinton for 'Audacity' in Email Scandal: Put Personal Interest Before the Nat'l Interest

Weekly Standard ^ | March 9, 2015 | JOHN MCCORMACK

[Cincinatus' Wife]

In an interview Sunday afternoon, Scott Walker strongly criticized Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of private email as secretary of state and rejected accusations that he's guilty of hypocrisy on the issue.

"It’s a logical assumption that the secretary of state is talking about highly confidential classified information. How can she ensure that that information wasn’t compromised?" Walker told THE WEEKLY STANDARD following an event with supporters in Des Moines. "I think that’s the bigger issue—is the audacity to think that someone would put their personal interest above classified, confidential, highly sensitive information that’s not only important to her but to the United States of America. I think is an outrage that Democrats as well as Republicans should be concerned about.”

Walker has been accused of hypocrisy by some Democrats because aides who worked for Walker when he was Milwaukee County Executive set up a private email network. But Walker said on Sunday that there is no equivalence between what happened in his office and what Clinton did as secretary of state. In addition to arguing that Clinton's exclusive use of private email put classified information at risk, Walker pointed out that his actions as Milwaukee County Executive have already been thoroughly investigated.

"I mean, what, a quarter of a million emails or those related to me have come out, and what’s the wildest thing that came out of it? I think arguably the craziest news story out of it is that someone who appears to have been an intern years ago wrote a draft letter in response to a request to put up a menorah candle for Hanukkah and at the end said Molotov instead of Mazel Tov. If that’s the craziest thing you can look at, most people realize that really wasn’t much of anything," Walker said...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Milwaukee County says nearly all Walker emails released [Taxpayer funded witch-hunt in Wisconsin] MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Milwaukee County officials say they don't plan another mass release of emails collected in the John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's aides and associates when he was county executive.

County attorney Paul Bargren says in a letter Wednesday to The Associated Press that more than 29 gigabytes of documents were released as ordered by a judge between August and December. The AP and other news organizations reviewed hundreds of thousands of documents during that time....

[Democrat_media]

Governor Scott Walker is the ONLY one who has passed conservative laws and the only person who has defeated the left/democrats and media. and he’s done it repeatedly in a liberal state.Look at his record.

Walker is the only hope for America .

Actions mean everything . Words mean nothing. what the mainstream liberal news media says Walker said means nothing. Walker’s passed conservative laws proving he’s a conservative. Walker’s had victories against the left proving he is effective and can do the job. Action and results matter. liberal media slander of Walker is just lies

[VeniVidiVici]

Scott Walker, a county executive, had a over 250,000 emails released.

Hillary Clinton, a Secretary of State, has released only 55,000 pages of emails.

Maybe Hillary just doesn't work as hard as Scott Walker.

[RitaOK]

Walker takes a very precise and incisive shot at Hillary Clinton, and succinct.

Also, precisely TRUE.