The State Department will announce a timetable Tuesday for the release of more of the 55,000 pages of emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton on her private server, writes NBC News.
The State Department is under court order to make the scheduled releases public. A federal judge has ordered that the documents be released on a “rolling basis” every 60 days.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will seek the presidency for a second time, said one of her top advisers Sunday. It ended two years of speculation and coy denials and immediately established herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee.
The announcement came in e-mails from John Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, states the New York Times.
“I wanted to make sure you heard it first from me – it’s official: Hillary’s running for president,” the e-mail from Podesta reads. It goes on to say that Mrs. Clinton will meet with voters in Iowa and will host a formal kickoff event next month.
The announcement by Hillary’s campaign chairman began what could be one of the least contested races, without an incumbent, for the Democratic presidential nomination in recent history, according to the New York Times. It would be a stark contrast to the 2008 primaries, when Mrs. Clinton ended up in a long and expensive battle ultimately won by Barack Obama.
TYT Network
Wikipedia: “Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American political news correspondent and conservative pundit for the Fox News Channel. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller and formerly co-hosted CNN’s Crossfire and MSNBC’s Tucker.
The Daily Caller is an internet news site. The site has a right-wing agenda, so always double-check for other sources before citing a Daily Caller article.
Fox News states: “Tucker Carlson currently serves as co-host of FOX & Friends Weekend (weekends 6-10AM/ET). He joined FNC in 2009 as a contributor.”
Here, TYT Network discusses a misogynist e-mail exchange exposed at The Daily Caller.
House Speaker John Boehner is expected to announce this week a new “special investigation” into Hillary Clinton’s email practices as Secretary of State, including her admission that more than 31,000 emails were destroyed because she determined them to be personal, top House Republicans told ABC News.
This investigation is separate from the ongoing Benghazi investigation., claims the Huffington Post.
During a news conference last week, Clinton did not describe the details of how the review of her email was conducted, but said it was “thorough” and that she went “above and beyond” what she was required to do in turning over many of her emails to the State Department.
ABC’s “This Week” program said top Republicans had briefed it about Hillary’s investigation, but did not give details.
Clinton, expected to launch her campaign soon for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, has faced a storm of criticism over her email habits.
She used a personal email address instead of a government one, as well as a personal server, during the period she was secretary of state, from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton told a news conference on Tuesday her private email address was a “convenience” so she would not have to carry two mobile devices.
She sent and received 62,320 emails while at the State Department. After a review process, 30,490 were provided to the State Department at its request, a Clinton spokesman said last week, according to the Huffington Post. The remaining 31,830 were private and personal records, the spokesman said.
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The big story in right-wing media coverage is the security of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail account and also whether there are any Benghazi-related e-mails.
The State Department requested all secretaries of state send in their documents in 2014, and Clinton and her lawyer team turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department last December.
The former Secretary of State has said she wants those e-mails released to the public. They will first be scrutinized by the State Department, a process which could take months, according to Reuters.
Let’s look at the security situation regarding the e-mails. Were her e-mails secure?
According to The Miami Herald:
“But at least one expert who looked at the scant public records available on the account – hdr22@clintonemail.com – said the arrangement would have permitted private spam and virus filter company McAfee to access her emails if it wanted to.
“‘The email traces all end at McAfee,’ said Brian Reid, a cybersecurity expert with Internet Systems Consortium. ‘If nothing else, they have and had the technical ability to read her email. This does not mean they did, only that they could have.’
“Experts said they still need to know whether and how her email was encrypted, who administered and had access to the account, and whether there was an authentication process.
“And they cautioned against assuming the private system was automatically more risky than government email. The State Department system in November was forced to briefly shut down its entire unclassified email system after an apparent hacker attack.
“‘We can’t assume that her email account was any less secure than a State Department account,’ said Reid. ‘At the same time, it’s possible it was less secure. We need to know more to know for sure.’
“…Obama administration officials refused to provide much detail on Clinton’s email arrangement, deferring security and technical questions to her office, which would not comment.
“The separate legal and ethical aspects of the matter, however, came under fresh scrutiny. The congressional committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks announced a subpoena for all correspondence from the server to investigate conduct it said ‘raises significant issues for transparency.'”
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The New York Times reports that Hillary Clinton only used a personal email account as Sec. of State which may have broken federal regulations that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.
The Times states that Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. “Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.”
Two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. “All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department,” according to the Times.
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Sony executives Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal joked about President Obama’s possible movie preferences in e-mails that hacked.
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