Hillary Clinton addressed the scandal surrounding her exclusive use of a private email account. However, her statements fail to answer multiple questions. And, one number keeps popping up: 31,380. The Washington Post,
Roughly half of all emails — 62,320 — that Clinton sent and received during her time as the nation’s top diplomat are gone forever. And that the only way anyone can verify that they were, as Clinton insisted on Tuesday, “private” and “personal” is to take her word for it…
That fact becomes even more politically troublesome for Clinton when you consider how, according to a document her office released in the wake of her press conference, the sorting of work-related and personal email was conducted…
The problem for Clinton (or at least the problem I see) is that we won’t ever be able to check whether the judgement used by her lawyers was the right judgment. I’m not suggesting that she should have been required to publicly release every e-mail — professional or personal — she sent during her time at State. There’s plenty of private things that she has every right to keep private. But, the decision to destroy all of those e-mails means that the possibility of having an independent review of them by some trusted figure (or figures) is entirely impossible.
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