Friday, July 24, 2015

Once again the former Secretary has diffuse suspicions about her private email account.

Former Secretary Clinton needs to take this head on and answer questions by the State Department Inspector General. Her leadership on dissipating these questions into the vapors is better than avoiding it. I think she is the only one that can act decisively on these issues.

The former Secretary can consult in private. Obviously. If this is classified information it can't be discussed in public.

July 24, 2015
By Michael S. Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo

WASHINGTON — Two inspectors general (click here) have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private e-mail account she used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.

The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Clinton’s private account contained “hundreds of potentially classified e-mails.’‘ The memo was written to Patrick F. Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management....

...It is not clear if any of the information in the e-mails was marked as classified by the State Department when Clinton sent or received them. But since her use of a private e-mail account for official State Department business was revealed in March, she has repeatedly said she had no classified information on the account....