Clinton Spox: Hillary Took National Security and Classified Info ‘Very Seriously’

‘The [Benghazi] Committee actually — we would not even know about that e-mail potentially if they had not leaked it to the New York Times in April of 2015’

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FINNEY: “Idea that retroactive classification, [indecipherable] of implications of that, then the Gowdy committee and the members of congress have done what they're accusing Hillary Clinton doing of wrongdoing when she didn't know because it was not marked classified. They didn't -- wasn't marked classified when they had it.”

ROBERTS: “But Congress is held to a different standard and their servers are held to a different standard. -- You can't equate their servers to the same servers of the secretary of state and cabinet-level members who are dealing with intelligence secrets.”

FINNEY: “But I do when you’re talking about a Benghazi Select Committee that is supposed to be dealing with classified information or national secrets, national security. If the concern is truly more broadly about how classified information is handled, we should have that concern no matter where it is. And I certainly think it opens very serious questions about how it is that the committee and why it is the committee, we have seen a number of leaks coming out of that committee, the committee actually -- we wouldn't even know about that e-mail potentially if they did not leak it to The New York Times in April of 2015. That’s quite reckless.”

ROBERTS: “So when we talk about where the testimony is going to go from here, we have the aides. How’s Hillary Clinton preparing to testify?”

FINNEY: “You know, this -- I think you will see what you saw the last couple of times that she has testified before the committees, she will answer all of their questions. She has said she is going to stay there as long as they would like and, you know, take all the questions. So, you know, she is preparing in the way she would for any sort of thing like this. That is, answering the questions. And I think what you're going to see -- look, I think actually when Hillary testifies Americans are going to see this is a woman who has great command of the facts. This is someone who takes her -- took her responsibility in terms of the secrets of this country and National Security and classified information very seriously. And there's going to be a lot of misinformation that muddied the waters on this and she'll make it clearer to people what's separating fact from fiction.”

 

 

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