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Related: About this forumNew York Times: Spokesman for Hillary Clinton Offers New Take on Email Issue (HILLARY GROUP)
As Brian Fallon, Hillary Rodham Clintons press secretary, defended her on Wednesday during a conference call about her email use, he made a novel argument that got lost in the haze of questions.
Mr. Fallon spoke to reporters after Fox News had reported that two of Mrs. Clintons aides while she was secretary of state had sent her classified information over her private email server.
Mr. Fallon insisted that the report constituted a watershed moment that helped identify which emails an inspector general had flagged as containing classified information. Thats because, he argued, the definition of what is classified is subjective, and the emails werent marked as classified at the time they were sent. The inspector general referred to four classified emails in a letter to the F.B.I. about the security of Mrs. Clintons server.
Then Mr. Fallon tried to turn the theoretical tables on Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, which has focused in recent months on Mrs. Clintons email use. If she was at fault for having classified information on her server without her knowledge, Mr. Fallon suggested, then arent other people in the same boat?
Just as an aside, for the I.G. to now declare the material as classified, since it was provided by State to the House Benghazi committee earlier this year in unredacted form, presumably that means that members of the House Benghazi committee may have unwittingly handled classified material on unclassified systems within the House of Representatives, Mr. Fallon said.
Now, I dont think that anybody here at the Clinton campaign is going to say that members of, say, Chairman Gowdys staff should have their computers confiscated for having possibly trafficked in classified material, he said. I dont think we would say that. But that is, fundamentally, the same logic behind the I.G.s referral to the State Department with respect to Mrs. Clintons server, since she was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became deemed as classified. Lets raise that as an aside....
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/20/spokesman-for-hillary-clinton-offers-new-take-on-email-issue/ via NYTimes
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)I am sick to death of the right wing constantly attacking Hillary for every time a pin drops. It's day after day, week after week, hour after hour, year after year. They can go to hell.