Conservatives Push False Claim That Clinton's Use Of Private Email While SOS Was Unprecendented

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Conservatives Push False Claim That Clinton's Use Of Private Email While Sec'y Of State Was Unprecedented

Wash. Post's Thiessen: "This Is Just Unprecedented In Our History."
Research 8 minutes ago ››› RACHEL CALVERT

Fox News' Bill Hemmer parroted an erroneous claim that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account is unprecedented, when, in fact, former Secretary of State Colin Powell also used a private email account to conduct government business during his time in the Bush administration and did not preserve those records.
Fox News Promotes False Claim Of Unprecedented Email Use By Clinton

Fox's Bill Hemmer Highlights Conservative Activist's Claim. On the June 29 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, host Bill Hemmer read a quote from conservative activist and Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton claiming that Clinton's private email account was without precedent. He added, "You wonder if we will see this publicly." From the segment:

HEMMER: You wonder if we will see this publicly, right? Tom Fitton with Judicial Watch, he's filed 20 requests for Freedom of Information Act, this is what he said: "There is nothing in the history of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or in the history of the Federal Records Act to compare with Mrs. Clinton's decision to use a secret account to conduct her government business, and have other agency officials use that as well. There was a whole cadre of State Department officials who went dark and were conducting government business in such a way that made it immune to scrutiny." Will he ever win in his pursuit?