Hillary Clinton campaign redirects email blowback at GOP
You go gal. Do not put up with those lies. ENOUGH!
Hillary Clinton campaign redirects email blowback at GOP
By Rachael Bade
7/27/15 2:36 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is seizing on the backlash to a faulty New York Times report regarding her email practices at the State Department by trying to link the controversy to a familiar culprit: Overzealous Republicans.
And the campaign’s prime target, unsurprisingly, is Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who heads the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon in recent days personally blamed Gowdy’s panel for the story — which was subsequently walked back by the Times — stating that officials were seeking a criminal investigation of Clinton’s email practices as secretary of State.
The Times reporters “got taken for a ride here by partisan sources on the House Benghazi Committee that have made a habit of routinely and selectively leaking information in an attempt to make Hillary Clinton look bad,” Fallon said on MSNBC Friday, adding: “We’ve gotten far afield from the initial jurisdiction of this committee and the work was supposed to be wrapped up months ago and now they are telegraphing it will extend well into 2016, which is just clearly an effort to influence this presidential campaign.”
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The campaign’s response signaled a new aggressiveness toward the GOP’s ongoing investigation of the 2012 Benghazi attacks and her email correspondence during her time as secretary of State. Until now, the campaign has allowed Democrats on the congressional panel and groups like David Brock’s “Correct the Record” to take the lead in pushing back against Hill Republicans.
But after Friday’s news that the Justice Department had been asked to look at whether classified material was sent over Clinton’s private server — the original Times report said Clinton herself was the subject of a potential criminal inquiry — the campaign took on the matter itself.................
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-campaign-email-backlash-gop-new-york-times-120669.html#ixzz3h87qiq5A
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