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Hillary Clinton Case

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Is Hillary Clinton in trouble for having government secrets on her private email server? The inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community concluded that some of the emails Clinton and others exchanged on her private server while she was Secretary of State contained classified information. However, there has been an official disagreement over when and whether the information in the emails was actually classified. Some experts, officials, and members of Congress contended that her use of that private messaging system violated State Department protocols and procedures, and Federal laws and regulations. Legally, If Clinton knowingly used her private server to handle classified information she could have a problem. But if she didn’t know the material was classified when she sent or received it she’s safe. …show more content…

She agreed to turn the server over to the Justice Department, along with a thumb drive containing copies of thousands of messages already provided to the State Department. When Clinton turned over more than 30,000 emails to the department in December, she said that she had deleted an equal number that were personal, including messages about the planning of her daughter's wedding and her mother's funeral. The problem was that it was Clinton who decided which emails would be preserved and handed over, an arrangement that Republicans were bound to see as suspicious. Republicans asserted that Clinton's previous statements that she possessed no classified information were untrue and they demanded an investigation of her mishandling of classified

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