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It sure does, George, and it will also likely become a big issue in the upcoming presidential campaign. 

This morning, Hillary Clinton is in the hot seat after bombshell revelations first reported by the NYT overnight. The Times reports Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as Secretary of State, noting she didn’t even have a government email address during her four-year tenure¹. The State Department officials confirmed this is true. 

It is very unusual for a high-level official to solely² use a private email account to transact³ government business. 

I, Hillary Rodham Clinton…

That raises serious issues. For one, federal law requires that all official communications including email must be preserved by the government to allow future access for historians, journalists and for Congress. The Times reports the emails first came to light as result of a special Congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the US consulate⁴ in Benghazi in Libya. Overnight, the State Department told ABC News Clinton did hand over tens of thousands of emails at their request late last year. But the Times reports Clinton’s advisers⁵ reviewed those emails first, picking and choosing which ones to send. And legality isn’t the only issue. There’s also security. Was Clinton’s private email account encrypted against possible security breaches⁶? Overnight, Jeb Bush tweeted “Transparency matters. Unclassified Hillary Clinton emails should be released.”

In response to the Times story, a Clinton spokesperson said that she abided by both the letter and spirit of the law, and George, while her emails were not preserved at the time by the government, the spokesperson said that Mrs. Clinton preserved her own emails and when asked, years after she left the State Department, she did turn over those emails. 

Ok, meantime, also in Washington, John, of course, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Congress today that showdown with President Obama and ahead of that, both the president and the PM trying to say, hey, this is not personal, the US-Israel relationship is strong, we just disagree over this Iran nuclear deal.

This is gotten real hot, so both sides are trying to turn the temperature down, saying, look, Israel and the US remain the closest of allies, but George, as you know, there still is a huge fundamental disagreement between Bibi Netanyahu and the president on and around nuclear deal.

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