Subject: This Week in Emails: A Few Helpful Resources
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:51:15 -0400

Friends -

Hope all of you are having a great and safe Labor Day weekend!

Below is a compilation of news clips that I think you'll find helpful that
have come out in the past week on emails. I'm also attaching a one pager on
emails that lays out our key points.

Hope these materials are helpful. Thanks!

- Adrienne

*This Week in Emails: A Few Helpful Resources*

News about Hillary Clinton’s emails continue this week, with a number of
new developments as well as key expert voices outside pushing back on some
of the misleading attacks and arguments being pushed in the media and by
other candidates.

·         Friday, Hillary Clinton did an extended interview
<http://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/andrea-mitchells-one-on-one-with-hillary-clinton-519588419510>
with Andrea Mitchell in which she discussed in detail her views on the
email situation, taking responsibility and calling it not the best choice,
while also laying out some of the facts around the issue. The whole
interview is worth a watch, but if you don’t have time, here’s the first
question <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/639868074619879424>.

·         Anne Tomkins, the former U.S. Attorney who prosecuted David
Petraeus, wrote an oped entitled “Petraeus Prosecutor: Clinton Committed No
Crime”
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/>
in which she detailed about the ways in which the two situations differ and
noting that “Indeed, the State Department has confirmed
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/us/fbi-tracking-path-of-email-to-hillary-clinton-at-state-department.html>
 that none of the information that has surfaced on Clinton’s server thus
far was classified at the time it was sent or received. Additionally, the
Justice Department indicated that its inquiry is not a criminal one
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/report-hillary-clinton-criminal-probe-urged-by-inspectors-general-over-email-use-at-state-120571#ixzz3gpTJFQXg>
 and that Clinton is not the subject of the inquiry.”

·         Secretary of State John Kerry noted in an interview
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kerry-hillary-clinton-emails_55e8b68ee4b093be51baf247>
that “there is no evidence that something was transmitted that was
classified at the time.” The story noted that “Kerry also took issue with
comparisons between Clinton and whistleblowers whom the government goes
after for leaking classified information.”

·         Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the Benghazi Select Committee,
wrote an oped in the New York Times arguing to “Disband the Benghazi
Committee,”
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/opinion/disband-the-benghazi-committee.html?_r=0>
arguing the Select Committee became little more than a partisan tool to
influence the presidential race, a dangerous precedent that will haunt
Congress for decades.

·         Last week, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote a
column entitled “The Hillary Clinton E-mail  Scandal That Isn’t.”
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hillary-clinton-e-mail-scandal-that-isnt/2015/08/27/b1cabed8-4cf4-11e5-902f-39e9219e574b_story.html>
Ignatius later repeated many his arguments on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, noting
that “*My only point is I couldn't find a case where this kind of activity
had been prosecuted and that's just worth noting as we assemble our Clinton
e-mail - and more thing, Joe, legally there is no difference between her
using her private server and if she'd used State.gov, which is also not a
classified system.”* Sadly, you might not have heard them, since these and
other parts of his comments were edited out on re-broadcast. Media Matters
for America lays out the details here.
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/04/msnbcs-morning-joe-edits-out-david-ignatius-deb/205376>

·         And finally, with yet another monthly release of emails from the
State Department, yet again, we are seeing that these releases simply show
both the hard work Hillary Clinton and the rest of the State Department
team were doing, as well as the human
<http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/what-hillary-clintons-emails-really-reveal.html?mid=twitter_cut>
and sometimes humorous side
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/hillary-emails-gop-213118>
of her email exchanges. Also lost in the debate over emails is the
importance of Clinton’s tenure in pushing innovation and use of technology
in diplomacy, as laid out in a piece in re/code by the former Chief
Information Officer of the US Information Agency.
<http://recode.net/2015/09/01/clintonemail-com/>

-- 

Adrienne K. Elrod
Spokesperson
Hillary For America
*www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com>*
@adrienneelrod