AP: Private Email Questions Emerge As Clinton Nears 2016 Bid

By Associated Press March 5 at 1:20 AM

WASHINGTON — Republicans are signaling that questions about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private email account while she was secretary of state will follow her into her widely anticipated presidential campaign.

GOP leaders, who control the investigative powers of Congress, say the revelations reaffirm a long-held GOP portrayal of Bill and Hillary Clinton as secretive and playing by their own rules.

Democrats dismiss the accusations as trivial and question whether the emails will resonate with voters in an election 20 months away.

But as the presidential nominating season begins, Clinton’s use of a personal email account for State Department business has stoked questions about transparency that threaten to cloud her early steps as the Democratic Party’s overwhelming favorite White House prospect.

“The American people deserve all of the facts,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday. He was responding to an Associated Press report that the computer server that sent and received the secretary of state’s emails — on a private account used for official business — was registered to Clinton’s New York home.

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