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The Hillary Clinton email controversy relates to the use of a private email server by Hillary Rodham Clinton during her tenure as US Secretary of State.
Initial controversy
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In early March 2015, a New York Times report reported that throughout her time as Secretary of State, Clinton used her own private email server, rather than government-issued departmental ones.[1]
On the day of the first Senate Confirmation hearing for Hillary Clinton's Secretary of State nomination, someone going by the name Eric Hoteham purchased server space to host the URLs "clintonemail.com", "wjcoffice.com" and "presidentclinton.com"[2] and listed Hillary Clinton's Chappaqua, New York home as the address for the domains.[3] Eric Hoteham may be a garbled version of Eric Hothem, a former Clinton aide.[4] The sites were operated out of Clinton's home.[5]
According to several security experts, including Chris Soghoian, this may have exposed her communications as Secretary of State to hacking and foreign surveillance.[6]
The existence of the server was reported by the New York Times in early March, 2015.[1] The use of the private email server may have violated State Department transparency protocols, although this has been disputed by Jason Baron, the former head of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), who described Clinton private email usage as "highly unusual", but not violating the law.[7][8]
On March 27, 2015, Trey Gowdy, Republican chairman of the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi, asserted that some time after October 2014 Clinton "unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean" and that "she also summarily decided to delete all emails," although no evidence was provided that Clinton herself had actually done so.[9][10] That same day Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, asserted that after Clinton had provided over 30,000 pages of emails to the government, the server's retention settings had been changed to retain emails from only the prior 60 days, which does not necessarily mean that the server has been wiped "clean," as there are techniques available to recover deleted files.[11][12]
Blumenthal memos
A portion of the emails on Clinton's private server were emails sent in 2011 and 2012 by Sidney Blumenthal, a political supporter and former campaign staffer who was then working for the Clinton Foundation. In 2009, the Obama White House had disallowed Clinton's attempt to hire Blumenthal as an adviser to her at the State Department. In the 2011 and 2012 emails, however, Blumenthal prepared, from public and other sources, about 25 memos which he sent to Clinton, which she then shared through her aide, Jake Sullivan, with senior State Department personnel, including J. Christopher Stevens, United States Ambassador to Libya.[13] In the form of intelligence briefings, the memos sometimes touted his business associates and, at times, contained inaccurate information.[14] Clinton herself was sometimes skeptical, saying on March 9, 2012 that one of Blumenthal's mails "strains credulity."[13]
The United States House Select Committee on Benghazi served a subpoena on Blumenthal on May 19, 2015 for a deposition regarding this matter to be held on June 3, according to Reuters.[15]
UN press conference
On March 10, 2015, after attending a conference on the status on women at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Clinton addressed reporters for 20 minutes at Turtle Bay.[16] Clinton said that she had used a private email out of convenience because she did not want to carry two phones.[17] She said that her staff would be turning over copies of 30,000 emails from her time at State that she believed belonged in the public domain, but that they had deleted 32,000 emails from her time at State that she regarded as private.[18]
Release
May 19, 2015, following a court order, the State Department announced it will release some 55,000 pages of Clinton emails during her time as Secretary of State in a rolling sequence of blocks, rather than waiting until January 2016 to release all of them at once as it had planned to do.[19]
On May 22, 2015, hundreds of Clinton's emails were made public as the "first batch," many of which pertained to the 2012 Benghazi attack.[20]
References
- ^ a b "Hillary Clinton's Use of Private Email at State Department Raises Flags". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Meghan Keneally (March 5, 2015). "Hillary Clinton Email Mystery Man: What We Know About Eric Hoteham". ABC News. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ^ "Who Is Eric Hoteham? Clinton Private Server Listed Under Mysterious, Untraceable Name « CBS DC". Washington.cbslocal.com. March 4, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Sick, Gary (March 9, 2015). "5 questions: The Clinton email - Tarini Parti". Politico.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Makarechi, Kia (March 5, 2015). "Hillary Clinton Breaks Her Silence on E-mail Scandal". Vanityfair.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Greenberg, Andy (March 3, 2015). "Why Clinton's Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail". Wired. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- ^ Seitz-Wald, Alex (March 4, 2015). "Hillary Clinton's email problem is not going away". MSNBC. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Gluck, Abbe R. (March 6, 2015). "Clinton private email violated 'clear-cut' State Dept. rules - Josh Gerstein". Politico.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Statement Regarding Subpoena Compliance and Server Determination by Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | Select Committee on Benghazi". Benghazi.house.gov. October 28, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Perry, Mark. "Trey Gowdy: Hillary Clinton wiped email server clean". Politico.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "No Copies of Hillary Clinton Emails on Server Lawyer Says". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "How to recover deleted files". PCWorld.com. May 5, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ a b Nicholas Confessore and Michael S. Schmidt (May 18, 2015). "Clinton Friend's Memos on Libya Draw Scrutiny to Politics and Business". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal's advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal's assessments were often unreliable.
- ^ Michael S. Schmidt (May 18, 2015). "What Sidney Blumenthal's Memos to Hillary Clinton Said, and How They Were Handled". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
In 2011 and 2012, Hillary Rodham Clinton received at least 25 memos about Libya from Sidney Blumenthal, a friend and confidant who at the time was employed by the Clinton Foundation.
- ^ "Trey Gowdy slaps Sidney Blumenthal with a subpoena", dailycaller.com, May 20, 2015.
- ^ "Clinton: It 'might have been smarter' to use a State Dept. e-mail account". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "First Take: Clinton's even tone edges into exasperation". Usatoday.com. March 11, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Hillary Clinton tries to end controversy over private email account". Latimes.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ State Dept. to comply with court order on Hillary Clinton's emails Margaret Brennan, Paula Reid, CBS News, May 19, 2015
- ^ "First set of Hillary Clinton emails published online". BBC News. May 22, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
