Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night addressed reports that she’d exclusively used a private email account to conduct business as secretary of state, adding that she’d asked the State Department to release her emails to the public.
Clinton weighed in on the matter for the first time in public via Twitter:
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.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 5, 2015
The House Select Committee on Benghazi subpoenaed the State Department earlier Wednesday for all correspondence related to the deadly 2012 attacks in Libya from accounts registered to Clinton’s private email server, as well as the personal email accounts of any of her staff members.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a statement that the agency was complying with Clinton’s request, but that the public would have to wait a while before getting the chance to trawl through the former secretary of state’s email trove.
“The State Department will review for public release the emails provided by Secretary Clinton to the department, using a normal process that guides such releases,” Harf said, as quoted by NBC News. “Given the sheer volume of the document set, this review will take some time to complete.”
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Finally! Now we’ll finally learn just how much she gave to that Nigerian prince.
Won’t it be ironic if her at-home email server was the only cabinet level account that was not hacked by Snowden?
Fun! I wish I knew more about email security to venture an opinion.
Regardless, HRC’s first response is encouraging, at least on the front of proving she retains quick and effectively political chops.
My SENSE is that the particular communication loop, or more broadly, system, cannot be more secure than its weakest relay, and that the very most that a private relay point can do is to protect itself from INCOMING messages. That is, I cannot see how it could possibly provide ‘security’ in the sense of protection or cover or privacy in addition to the dot gov system or any other comparable system, for outgoing messages, EXCEPT possibly in hiding the sender’s physical location - say, to provide some comfort against attack.
What say the experts out there?
and that ‘response’ only took 2 days and was released at midnight… (those 55k emails that are constantly cited is a meaningless stat, since i suspect most of those emails are several pages long). she provided no reason why this was done in the first place – particularly since she presumably knows everything she’s done, esp as sos, will be scrutinized by the republicans as she continues with her unending quest to be the first female president.
by all means, continue with that ‘transparency’.
Enough said.