http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/carville-i-suspect-hillary-used-private-email-avoid-congressional-oversight_887502.htmlCarville: I 'Suspect' Hillary Used Private Email to Avoid Congressional Oversight
Daniel Halper
March 15, 2015 10:23 AM
James Carville, a former aide to Bill Clinton and a longtime defender of the Clintons, offered an explanation on ABC's This Week as to why Hillary Clinton might have used a private email account: to avoid congressional oversight.
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpvDmWpg9R4"What this is, is the latest in a continuation, and if you take it all and put it together, and you subtract 3.1415 from pi, you're left with not very much. And that's -- at the end of the day, so the Republicans can't pass a budget, alright, we got another investigation, just like we had the Whitewater, just like you go through the filegate, you go through travelgate, you go through seven or eight different congressional committees. And you wonder why the public is not following this? Because they know what it is.
"It was something she did. It was legal. I suspect she didn't want [Republican congressman] Louie Gohmert rifling through her emails, which seems to me to be a kind of reasonable position for someone to take. It amounts to -- just like everything else before it, it amounts to nothing but a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing."
The comment about Gohmert going through emails suggests Carville thinks Hillary Clinton set up the private email server to avoid congressional oversight.
The slip was noticed by Bloomberg's Mark Halperin, who commented on Twitter:
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James Carville on @ThisWeekABC says he "suspects" @HillaryClinton used private email b/c she didn't want Hill oversight. Quite an admission
9:06 AM - 15 Mar 2015