Hillary Clinton’s Email Deletion 'Deliberate and Premeditated' Act

Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn criticised on Wednesday, May 6 Hillary Clinton’s earlier confession that she used a private email address during her capacity as the state secretary, labelling Clinton’s initiative as a “deliberate” and “premeditated” attempt in circumventing the open records law. The U.S. Senate Judicial Committee began its probe on ascertaining administration’s efforts in ameliorating its open-government state.

Speaking before the committee, Cornyn remarked it bothers him that people would scheme up premeditatedly deliberately to escape from the ambit of Freedom of Information Act and from complying with federal government requirements such as, making public information open for public scrutiny. Cornyn was, of course, referring to Clinton’s admission that she deleted more than 30,000 emails and permanently cleared her server after turning over relevant correspondences to the State Department.

Also present was Joyce Barr, U.S. assistant-secretary of state, who described Clinton’s use of a personal email account as unacceptable. “The actions that we’ve taken in the course of recovering these emails has made it very clear what the responsibilities are with regard to record-keeping,” Barr testified, adding that she had no knowledge about Clinton’s use of personal email or how she used such email while she was still the secretary of state.

The Hill reports that Republicans were outraged by Clinton’s decision on using a personal email and government transparency proponents were fearful that such act allowed one of U.S.’ top officials to keep secret her messages. Senator Thom Tillis lamented that Clinton’s behaviour undermined American’s confidence.

“It was a bad decision. I hope that we go so far as to say that, if you do this in the future, you get fired. If the person at the top is doing it, then you can pretty much count on the reality that over some period of time, people at every level of the agency have,” The Hill quoted the senator.

It took Clinton more than a year for the public to know that Clinton used hdr22@clintonemail.com for her correspondence needs in her capacity as the state secretary. But despite such controversial admission, Clinton announced she is eyeing for the White House.

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