WND 9/9/2022
Jonathan Turley: Hillary 'rewriting history' of her email scandal
'Virtually everything about that claim is breathtakingly untrue'Amid the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump's handling of government documents, comparisons have been made with the bureau's probe of Hillary Clinton's use of an unsecure, private email server to conduct her business as secretary of state.
Clinton, who is selling hats reading "But her emails," has expressed incredulity that there should be any such comparison, insisting her server contained "zero" classified documents.
But constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who followed the Clinton case closely in the run-up to the 2016 election, says her denial "exposes something far more serious than signature hypocrisy."
"It reflects establishment figures' sense of license that they can literally rewrite history with little fear of contradiction by the media," he wrote in a column for the New York Post.
First, he recalled, a 2018 Department of Justice inspector general report revealed "81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails" were "classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time."
Clinton is simply "echoing her allies’ recent spin that there were only three documents with classification markings among 33,000 emails," Turley said. "It is utter nonsense."
"The Clinton email scandal is a scandal because these were emails. There is no classification automatically stamped on text being typed out and sent within minutes," he explained. "While attachments can have classification markings, the whole point of using secure servers is that emails are created in the moment with inevitable slips in referencing classified material."
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