Rep. Adam Schiff dealt a death blow to the Clinton
email scandal by going on CNN and revealing that members of the Benghazi
committee have already read the Clinton emails and they contain
nothing.
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “We knew as of last
summer that the Secretary used a private email account. This is not
something new. We knew also that she was cooperating. She was giving us
everything that we asked for. Nothing changed except for the pressure on
the Republican members of the committee this week became too great for
them to resist from the Stop Hillary PAC people and the RNC people, so
they issued a subpoena for records that we already have. Now, the
Secretary has called for those records to be made public. Why isn’t the
chairman doing that? Why aren’t we doing that? The reason is we’ve read
them. There’s nothing in them. My colleague says well, how do we know we
have them all? The reality is that if this secretary or anyone else
emailed a stand down order as this mythical claim exists out there,
there would be several people on the receiving end of that email. There
would be people at the Pentagon, people in the field who would have to
receive that order. None of that. There is no evidence of that.”
Rep. Schiff brought up a great point. If there were
anything in the emails, Republicans would have quickly made the emails
public in order to build and prolong the story. The fact that former
Sec. Clinton has called for the emails to be released, but Republicans
refuse to make them public, speaks volumes about what this “scandal” is
really about. The subpoena for documents that they already had in their
possession is straight out of the Republican Benghazi playbook.
Every Secretary of State over the last nearly 20
years has used private email. There is no scandal here. There is no
smoke. The is no fire. It’s just Republicans trying to create a scandal
because they are terrified of Hillary Clinton. Clinton and the Democrats
are doing the right thing by demanding that the emails be made public.
If there is anything damaging in her emails, let’s see it.
Why
are Republicans afraid to show the American people what is in the
emails? Eventually, the emails will be made public, and everyone will be
able to see that there is nothing in them. If Republicans had
something, they would be using it. The fact that they are trying to
heighten the conspiracy while revealing no evidence demonstrates that
the Clinton emails are another desperate Republican fantasy.
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