Hillary Clinton Emails Take Long Path to Controversy
By SCOTT SHANE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTAUG. 8, 2015
WASHINGTON Earlier this summer, the inspector general of the nations intelligence agencies contacted the longtime lawyer for Hillary and Bill Clinton with a pointed question. Classified information had been found in a small sample of 30,000 messages from the former secretary of states private email account. The inspector general, I. Charles McCullough III, wanted to know from the lawyer, David E. Kendall, where copies of the message collection might still be stored.
Mr. Kendalls answer, like so much in the story of the Clinton emails, pointed in an unexpected direction. The official communications of the nations 67th secretary of state, it turned out, were handled by a little Colorado I.T. company, Platte River Networks, previously best known for being honored in 2012 as Denvers small business of the year.
Last week, F.B.I. agents showed up at Platte Rivers modest brick building, opposite a candy factory. Now that government secrets had been found in Mrs. Clintons email, the agents wanted to know about the companys security measures.
Whether Americans believe Mrs. Clintons decision to use only a private email account for her public business is a troubling scandal well worth an F.B.I. inquiry, a pragmatic move blown out of proportion by Republican enemies, or something in between, may depend more on their partisan leanings than the facts of the affair itself.
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AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)There was some gun jumping on prosecution. Hillary lit it in fire for mileage, but it didn't make the real story go away. She made a huge error in judgment thinking this would blow over. Drip, drip, drip. And then it blows up. Clinton drama is so 90's.