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A Double-Whammy for Clinton, Part One:
After months of resistance, Hillary Clinton's campaign says that the former secretary of state will turn over to the Justice Department her private server and a thumb drive containing copies of her emails. (And that news came on the same day
that we learned that two of the emails that the inspector general for
the intelligence community reviewed contained "top secret" information,
the highest classification of government intelligence.) This is exactly
the scenario that many people assumed would play out beginning six
months ago - that Clinton would resist and resist and resist and then
relieve the pressure when it became absolutely necessary. The big
problem for her camp is that now, instead of looking proactive, Clinton
looks like she's been dragged into turning these materials over. Team
Clinton argues, by the way, that the "top secret" designation can be
attributed to a bureaucratic fight between the State Department and the
intelligence community about how information should be categorized. (The
State Department says that it is still assessing the information.) The
bottom line: We know we sound like a broken record in saying that this
issue isn't going away for Clinton, but these fights over potentially
classified materials guarantees a continued drip-drip-drip.
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Source: NBC News
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