Posted on 08/14/2015 6:42:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CLEAR LAKE , Iowa — Hillary Clinton hammered away at Republicans for their Benghazi investigation and probes of her email practices on Friday night, arguing the GOP was playing politics and chasing conspiratorial fantasies.
During Iowa’s famous Wing Ding dinner in Clear Lake, the 2016 Democratic front-runner dismissed Republican concerns about the transparency of her email arrangement and said she’s already been exonerated by earlier investigations.
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“Benghazi was a tragedy where four Americans died… but let’s be clear: Seven exhaustive investigations… have already debunked all of the conspiracy theories,” she said. “It’s not about email servers either. It’s about politics.”
Clinton even opened her speech with a taunt aimed at GOP theories that she intentionally deleted emails to hide something: “You may have seen I recently launched a Snapchat account. I love it: Those messages disappear all by themselves…”
The crowd exploded in applause.
Hill Republicans created the House Select Committee on Benghazi to probe the events that led up to the 2012 attack, an investigation increasingly focused on the former Secretary of State — particularly after news broke that she exclusively used a personal email for work and circumvented policies mandating official accounts for record-keeping purposes.
The FBI has opened a probe into her email arrangement after an inspector general found potential “top secret,” classified information on her unsecured, home-made system. This week she turned over her server to law enforcement officials, a server she said she wiped clean after turning over 35,000 official emails to the State Department for record-keeping purposes earlier this year.
Clinton told a room jam-packed with Democratic supporters that she’s turned over 55,000 pages worth of her emails, calling for them to be made public immediately; has handed in her server to the Justice Department; and has “been offering to answer [GOP] questions for months,” including coming to the Hill to testify.
“But here’s what I won’t do: I won’t get down in the mud with them… or dishonor the memories of those who died. I don’t pretend this isn’t about politics,” she said.
When Democrats are flocking to see a Comunist while Hillary speaks to empty halls it is pretty obvious she is toast
Ole Screech doesn’t even realize how far down in the muck she is. Hell she would have to climb up to find the mud. The muck surrounding her is miles deep and she can’t see the top because of it.
The Democrats could elect a ham sandwich if they had to.
I think the image she meant to convey was of her rising up to the level of mud.
Believing Hillary Clinton story requires “a willing suspension of disbelief.”
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