Hillary Clinton Slammed Over Tweets About Classified Emails
Twitter users slammed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her claims about classified emails. On Wednesday, Clinton tweeted, “I can’t believe we’re still talking about this, but my emails… As Trump’s problems…
Twitter users slammed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her claims about classified emails.
On Wednesday, Clinton tweeted, “I can’t believe we’re still talking about this, but my emails… As Trump’s problems continue to mount, the right is trying to make this about me again. There’s even a ‘Clinton Standard.’ The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified.”
She added, “Comey admitted he was wrong after he claimed I had classified emails. Trump’s own State Department, under two different Secretaries, found I had no classified emails.”
Clinton continued, “That’s right: ZERO.”
She argued that “Trump has hundreds of documents clearly marked classified, and the investigation just started.”
Concluding her Twitter thread, Clinton wrote, “I’m more tired of talking about this than anyone, but here we are.”
Twitter users were quick to accuse Clinton of lying.
One user tweeted, “You are a damn liar.”
Another wrote, “This is entirely untrue. Obamas FBI said she did.”
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In 2016, CBS News reported the inspector general of the intelligence community told members of Congress in a letter that Clinton’s private email server “contained information that was classified at a higher level than ‘top secret.'”
Charles McCullough wrote that the server used by Clinton as secretary of state contained “several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the element to be at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET/SAP levels.”
The outlet noted SAP stands for special access programs.
Her campaign press secretary, Brian Fallon, issued a statement reiterating that she did not send or receive classified information through her private email server.
“This is the same interagency dispute that has been playing out for months, and it does not change the fact that these emails were not classified at the time they were sent or received,” he said.
Fallon added, “It is alarming that the intelligence community , working with Republicans in Congress, continues to selectively leak materials in order to resurface the same allegations and try to hurt Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The Justice Department’s inquiry should be allowed to proceed without any further interference.”