Courtesy of Mish.
In the wake of major flip-flop by Hillary Clinton as to whether she would or would not issue an apology over “Emailgate”, I thought it might be interesting to review the details and denials from the beginning.
Emailgate Backgound
From 2009 to 2013, when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, she sent and received using a home-brew email server setup in her house. This was a violation of protocol as she was supposed to use secure government channels.
Her use of a private server and email account prompted congressional and FBI investigations. She denied any classified documents were on her server, but a quick check proved otherwise.
Despite all of her efforts, the server story will not go away, it has been in the news for months, and Hillary’s popularity has plunged.
Clinton’s Favorable Rating
Gallup reports …
Dogged by continued scrutiny of her email practices as secretary of state, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s favorability with the American public has sunk to one of its lowest levels in Gallup’s 23-year trend. Currently, 41% of U.S. adults say they have a favorable opinion of the Democratic front-runner, while 51% hold an unfavorable view.
Clinton’s sub-40% favorable ratings in 1992 were mostly a product of the public’s lack of familiarity with her, rather than any kind of broad unpopularity. By contrast, her current 41% favorable rating is arguably her worst, given her nearly universal name recognition. Her present rating is about as low as it was in March 2001, during her first few months in office as a U.S. senator from New York.
Perhaps more importantly, it was also after controversial pardons that her husband, President Bill Clinton, granted at the end of his presidency, and after the Clintons took furnishings and other gifts that were White House property when they left.
Clinton’s Defense
“I did not send or receive any information marked classified. I take the responsibilities of handling classified materials very seriously and did so,” said Hillary….
