http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/08/feinstein-calls-for-clinton-to-explain-emails/Senator Dianne Feinstein, the veteran California Democrat, said on Sunday that Hillary Clinton must “step up” and explain why she used only a private email address as secretary of state, comments likely to ratchet up pressure on Mrs. Clinton to address the matter publicly.
“I think that she needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is,” Ms. Feinstein said on the NBC program “Meet the Press.”
She added of Mrs. Clinton: “From this point on, the silence is going to hurt her.”
Ms. Feinstein’s comments were notably more pointed than earlier in the week when, in an interview in the Capitol, she said she did not think there was “any ill intent” on Mrs. Clinton’s part and counseled patience.
Since then, though, a barrage of additional reports about the nature of Mrs. Clinton’s email practices have come out, making senior Democrats anxious — and hopeful that their party’s likely presidential frontrunner would offer some clarity about why she used her own email server to conduct government business.
Mrs. Clinton has not spoken publicly about the matter since the news was posted online on Monday, but she did write on Twitter on Wednesday night that she wanted the public to see her email.
“I asked State to release them,” she wrote. “They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
