CLINTON, CHRISTIE CAMPAIGN
On a two-day swing through Iowa, the opening act of her 2016 campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton met Wednesday with small business owners and Democratic activists as part of her effort to reintroduce herself to voters in the crucial early voting state. At a produce company warehouse in Norwalk, she walked a fine line between endorsing President Barack Obama’s health care law and immigration policies while trying to define how her leadership would be different. “I want fix our political system. I want to get things done,” she said. “We have to start breaking down the divisions that have paralyzed our politics.”
Meanwhile in another early voting state, New Hampshire, potential GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, used a town hall meeting to take a firm stance against another Obama initiative, the emerging nuclear pact with Iran. He also said he would be open to putting U.S. soldiers “into the fight” against the Islamic State group if necessary, a step Obama has so far avoided taking.
From news services
Congressional investigators asked Hillary Rodham Clinton more than two years ago whether she had used a private email account while serving as secretary of state, but the State Department later declined to address the question.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., then the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked the State Department in a December 2012 letter about officials’ use of personal email. The letter asked if Clinton “or any senior agency official ever used a personal email account to conduct official business.”
The State Department responded in March 2013 with details on its email policies but didn’t address the substance of the request. The letters were first reported by The New York Times.
Clinton said during a news conference at the United Nations last month that she used a personal account over a government one out of convenience. She deleted about 30,000 emails that she has described as personal in nature and has declined requests from congressional Republicans to turn over her server for an independent review.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said the Issa letter was sent to all Cabinet agencies shortly before Clinton left the State Department and that the department responded to in due course.
“As we’ve said before, as secretary, she followed the letter and the spirit of the law. She has provided all of her work email to the State Department and has asked the State Department to release them publicly as soon as possible,” Merrill said.
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