Report: Boehner to Launch Investigation into Clinton Emails
According to ABC News, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is expected to announce an investigation later this week into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s emails — namely, her admission that she exclusively used a personal email for “convenience” and deleted 31,000 emails that she declared were personal and not work-related.
The report cites top House Republicans, who have made it clear they want a third party investigator to go through Clinton’s private server. Clinton, meanwhile, maintained at a press conference last week that she followed every rule by which she was governed, and turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department in compliance with the Federal Records Act.
“When I got to work as secretary of state, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two,” Clinton said. “Looking back, it would have been better if i’d simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn’t seem like an issue.”
The White House and Clinton loyalists have stood by the likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. Press Secretary Josh Earnest said there is no evidence she deleted any work-related emails, and her defenders have maintained the entire thing is a media-generated scandal with no basis in fact. Following the press conference, Clinton’s office released a lengthy statement that addressed some, but not all, of the lingering questions, and assured the public that no classified information was exchanged via her personal email address and it was never compromised by hackers. Her critics, as expected, have been relentless.
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