Hillary Clinton on emails: 'The facts are pretty clear.'
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday said she did not send classified emails from her private server while she was secretary of state. "I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received," Clinton told reporters in Winterset, Iowa.
She added that the latest controversy is an example of disagreement among various parts of the government about what should or should not be publicly released....
On Friday, CNN reported that the inspector general for the intelligence community had informed members of Congress that some material Clinton emailed from her private server contained classified information, but it was not identified that way.
Because it was not identified, it is unclear whether Clinton realized she was potentially compromising classified information. The IG reviewed a "limited sampling" of her emails, and among those 40 reviewed, found that "four contained classified (intelligence community) information," wrote the IG Charles McCullough in a letter to Congress....
Clinton said she has no idea what are the four specific emails the inspector general was talking about in his letter to Congress. "But the facts are pretty clear," Clinton said. "I did not send or receive anything that was classified at the time."
Clinton told reporters she turned over 55,000 pages of emails to help the State Department, because officials asked all former secretaries to provide any information possible to help with their record keeping.
"So I did, but then I said, 'Okay, so let's make it public,'" she said. "Now if I had just turned it over, we would not be having this conversation."...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/25/politics/clinton-confident-never-sent-classified-emails/index.html via CNN
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