Subject: UPDATED: *Friends and Allies Talking Points*
From: Alexandria Phillips <[email-masked]>
To: Alexandria Phillips <[email-masked]>
Cc: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:35:27 -0500
List-Id: <toptalkers.hillaryclinton.com>

*TOP LINE EMAIL POINTS*

   - The facts are still the same. None of the emails Secretary Clinton
   sent or received was marked classified at the time.  *None of the email
   chains in question today originated with her. * Secretary Clinton was
   allowed to use a personal email account and, like all Cabinet secretaries,
   it was up to her to decide which messages are work-related and which
   messages were personal.

   - Since Secretary Clinton turned 55,000 pages of her work email over to
   the State Department and asked they be made public, the government’s review
   of has been marred by bureaucratic infighting that has regularly spilled
   into public view.

   - Today, that infighting reached a new peak as some of the loudest—and
   most leak-prone—participants in this interagency dispute prevailed in
   completely blocking the release of some emails.

   - This flies in the face of the fact that these emails were completely
   unmarked at the time they were sent. In fact, they have been called
   'innocuous' by intelligence officials who have reviewed them. Secretary
   Clinton has asked that these emails, like the rest of her emails, be made
   public consistent with State Department policies.

   - Republican presidential candidates are attempting to use this to hurt
   her ahead of the Iowa caucuses. She will not be stopped, she will not
   be deterred.

   - It’s no coincidence that in the days leading up to today’s
   announcement, sources have been leaking intentionally misleading
   information to conservative outlets like Fox News in a transparent attempt
   to damage Secretary Clinton politically in the days before the Iowa caucus.

Feinstein Statement on Clinton Emails

Washington – Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the
following statement on Secretary Hillary Clinton’s emails:

“The latest allegations that Secretary Clinton’s emails include classified
information lack the same key information as previous reports.

“First, the 22 emails the State Department has labeled classified are part
of seven separate back-and-forth email chains, and none of those email
chains originated with Secretary Clinton.

“It has never made sense to me that Secretary Clinton can be held
responsible for email exchanges that originated with someone else.

“And second, none of the emails sent to Secretary Clinton have the
mandatory markings that are required when classified information is
transmitted.

“The only reason to hold Secretary Clinton responsible for emails that
didn’t originate with her is for political points, and that’s what we’ve
seen over the past several months.

“I expect the final emails in this voluntary disclosure process to be
released by the end of next month, at which point I believe we’ll see that
none of the information in question originated with Secretary Clinton or
was marked classified.”

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