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| Hillary Clinton emails: 'lazy' Republicans, impeaching justices ... and gefilte fish | Hillary Clinton emails: 'lazy' Republicans, impeaching justices ... and gefilte fish |
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| The State Department released another tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server late Monday. | The State Department released another tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server late Monday. |
| The release – which contained 7,000 pages of emails sent and received from 2009-2010, about topics ranging from Middle East policy to a controversial Rolling Stone cover story about American general Stanley McChrystal – is the latest monthly instalment of messages that Clinton turned over to the State Department from her private “homebrew” server. | The release – which contained 7,000 pages of emails sent and received from 2009-2010, about topics ranging from Middle East policy to a controversial Rolling Stone cover story about American general Stanley McChrystal – is the latest monthly instalment of messages that Clinton turned over to the State Department from her private “homebrew” server. |
| The emails didn’t just touch on policy. Many branched into politics, including a rather strange memo from influential Clinton ally David Brock on how to impeach supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas. Brock, who currently leads several pro-Clinton Super Pacs, raised issues with Thomas’s confirmation hearings in 1991. | The emails didn’t just touch on policy. Many branched into politics, including a rather strange memo from influential Clinton ally David Brock on how to impeach supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas. Brock, who currently leads several pro-Clinton Super Pacs, raised issues with Thomas’s confirmation hearings in 1991. |
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| Longtime Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal also wrote a number of memos to the secretary of state on American politics, including one describing the current Speaker of the House, John Boehner, as “louche, alcoholic [and] lazy” while predicting that Mitt Romney would run for president on a ticket with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, whom he compared to Dick Cheney. | Longtime Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal also wrote a number of memos to the secretary of state on American politics, including one describing the current Speaker of the House, John Boehner, as “louche, alcoholic [and] lazy” while predicting that Mitt Romney would run for president on a ticket with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, whom he compared to Dick Cheney. |
| Clinton herself also weighed on politics and praised a rival for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination in one email. In a message to Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski, Clinton wrote of then Maryland governor Martin O’Malley: “He should be elected by acclamation for steering the ship of state so well.” | Clinton herself also weighed on politics and praised a rival for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination in one email. In a message to Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski, Clinton wrote of then Maryland governor Martin O’Malley: “He should be elected by acclamation for steering the ship of state so well.” |
| But perhaps the most mysterious message of the roughly 7,000 emails released on Monday was one sent by Clinton with the subject line “Gefilte Fish” which simply asked “where are we on this?” | But perhaps the most mysterious message of the roughly 7,000 emails released on Monday was one sent by Clinton with the subject line “Gefilte Fish” which simply asked “where are we on this?” |
| Controversy over the Democratic frontrunner’s use of private email while secretary of state has raged for months after the New York Times first reported in March that Clinton did not even have a government email address. Eventually Clinton turned over approximately half the emails in her personal account, hdr22@clintonemail.com, to government lawyers while deleting an additional 32,000 messages that she said were personal. | Controversy over the Democratic frontrunner’s use of private email while secretary of state has raged for months after the New York Times first reported in March that Clinton did not even have a government email address. Eventually Clinton turned over approximately half the emails in her personal account, hdr22@clintonemail.com, to government lawyers while deleting an additional 32,000 messages that she said were personal. |
| Clinton’s use of a personal email account has spawned a congressional investigation led by Trey Gowdy, who chairs the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. | Clinton’s use of a personal email account has spawned a congressional investigation led by Trey Gowdy, who chairs the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. |
| Gowdy is examining whether classified information inappropriately ended up in Clinton’s email account and if government rules about record collection were broken. So far the US intelligence community has set aside at least 305 emails from Clinton’s account for further review, while another 60 emails included in the three previous email releases have been redacted to remove classified information. In addition 125 emails from Monday night’s release were deemed classified and held back as a result. | |
| Related: Hillary Clinton stumbles in Iowa as Trump's fortunes reach new heights | Related: Hillary Clinton stumbles in Iowa as Trump's fortunes reach new heights |
| Concerns over Clinton’s email use began to plague her campaign even before her official announcement in April that she was running for president. The steady flow of negative stories is reportedly one of the reasons that the vice-president, Joe Biden, is considering a late entry in the presidential race. | Concerns over Clinton’s email use began to plague her campaign even before her official announcement in April that she was running for president. The steady flow of negative stories is reportedly one of the reasons that the vice-president, Joe Biden, is considering a late entry in the presidential race. |
| Clinton is due to testify before Congress on 22 October about her use of the private email server and to answer questions about its security. | Clinton is due to testify before Congress on 22 October about her use of the private email server and to answer questions about its security. |