The Hillary Email Scandal (Updated)

Daily Mail: I’ve deleted all my personal emails and the server will remain private: Hillary Clinton reveals HALF her inbox - 31,830 messages - has not been handed over and says she used one account for convenience

* Asked why she had deleted what she admitted was ‘half of her inbox’ she replied: ‘I fully complied with every government rule’
* She added: ‘They were personal and private, about matters....I did not see a reason to keep them'
* They included messages about ‘planning Chelsea’s wedding, my mother’s funeral’, ‘yoga routines’ and ‘family vacations’
* Clinton attempted to make peace with the public - and Republicans who believe she withheld pertinent emails - after a speech to the U.N.
* Only acknowledgement of the email controversy prior to Tuesday had been through a spokesman and a single tweet
* Even after the presser questions lingered about Clinton's use of a private server, which she said would remain out of the government's grasp
* The State Department confirmed Tuesday afternoon that it has already released 300 Benghazi-related emails, comprising of 900 pages, to a special House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attack
* Those emails will be made available to the public online as soon as State finishes its review; it did not provide a timeline for that action
* All 55,000 pages of Clintons emails will eventually be released as 'one batch' in the same format, State confirmed
* Clinton is reportedly looking to launch her presidential campaign on April 1

Hillary Clinton today admitted she had deleted as many as 31, 830 personal emails she sent as Secretary of State as she attempted to defend her ‘home brew’ private account.

The wannabe-Democratic president said at a press conference that she ‘did not choose to keep’ anything that was official government business after she was asked to hand over her records to the State Department.

WNU Editor: What is my take on the Clinton email "scandal" .... I guess the following summary of what has happened so far will sum it up. She has already admitted that she has deleted 30,000 emails, and to take her word that she never used her personal account to transmit classified information. She admits emailing her husband all the time ... even though her husbands aides say that he never uses email. And while she said that she should have used the government's email system .... my common sense is telling me the opposite .... she wanted her personal affairs and business dealings (especially her business/foundation communications) to be done independently from any government oversight or record keeping. Even today's news conference was a joke .... the questions were handpicked, and the only thing that sticks in my mind about this event is her stern response that she was not going to have anyone 'take a peek" into her private server. And while all of the media focus will be on the emails that we will not see .... the only thing that I am curious about is .... did she use her position as Secretary of State to influence the procurement of  funds and monies for her husbands foundation. I suspect that the answer is yes .... and I also suspect that there is probably even more juicy information stored in her server's hard drive. But knowing the Clinton's past .... and how the media enjoys circling the wagon's around her (unless you are an up and coming black senator from Illinois) .... my prediction is that this story is going to be dead and buried by the weekend.

On a side note .... I was asked today on who did I think will be in the running for the U.S. President next year. I responded by saying that I do believe that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee for the Democrat party .... and I do expect Jeb Bush to be the nominee for the Republican party. Am I be happy with such a choice .... as  a Canadian I could not care less, but if I was an American I would probably feel disappointed. But such is the state of U.S. politics today .... and I hate to say this .... but from my perspective today's U.S. political process reminds me on how the Soviet Union chose its leaders in the early 1980s. After Brezhnev we  had Andropov. After Andropov we had Chenenko. And after Chernenko we had Gorbachev. Handpicked leaders chosen by the country's elite with no input from the common citizen. Flash forward to today .... I am now seeing the same thing play-out in the U.S. but with one big noticeable difference from the old Soviet Union .... the U.S permits non-stop/annoying/massive/etc. campaign advertising.

More News On The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal

Clinton on email controversy: 'would have been better' to use two accounts -- The Guardian
Clintons and controversy: The circus is back in town -- Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
Clinton says she had no email security breaches. But she doesn't know that. -- Timothy B. Lee, VOX
8 oddities of Hillary Clinton's email presser -- Z. Byron Wolf, CNN
Key questions remaining about Hillary Clinton's e-mails -- Catalina Camia, USA Today
Hillary Clinton's strategy of silence on e-mails: Why she stayed quiet for so long -- Husna Haq, CSM
Hillary Gives Us The Full Clinton -- David Freelander, Daily Beast
Hillary Clinton Defends E-mail Practices, and Draws a Line -- Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg
Hillary Clinton’s Media Demons Return To Haunt Her—Loudly -- Lloyd Grove, Daily Beast
Clinton’s E-Mail Defense Asks Public to Trust Without Verifying -- Mark Drajem, Bloomberg
Four things we still don't know after Clinton's email press conference -- Trevor Timm, The Guardian