Hillary Clinton “went above and beyond” to be transparent about her emails, the head of a pro-Clinton super PAC wrote in an editorial for USA Today on Friday.
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“The issue of how the Freedom of Information Act works or doesn’t work is an issue that cuts across federal agencies. However, when it comes to transparency, Secretary Clinton went above and beyond what the law requires,” wrote David Brock, who founded a PAC called “Correct the Record.”
“Clinton took the unprecedented step of asking the State Department to make all of her work-related emails public,” Brock added. “She provided nearly 55,000 pages of emails that were or could potentially be work-related.”
After the House Select Committee on Benghazi discovered in early 2015 that Clinton had used a personal email server and the search for her emails began, Clinton did call for the messages to be made public. But after turning over about half of them, she said the rest were of a personal nature. A subsequent probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation managed to salvage thousands more.
Of those salvaged, several thousand have been marked as “classified.” However, Brock argued Clinton shouldn’t be held accountable for those designations.
“The only ones that were marked classified were done so retroactively, by officials preparing them for public release,” Brock said. “None was marked classified when they were sent or received.”
“This email ‘controversy’ is nothing but Republicans’ latest attempt to make Hillary look — as Rep. Kevin McCarthy said — ‘untrustable,'” he added. “She has met a transparency gold standard throughout this race by disclosing her top fundraisers, releasing eight years of tax returns and answering the Benghazi committee’s questions.”
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“Instead of re-asking the same questions about a non-scandal, we should be demanding that all the presidential candidates be held to the same standard Hillary Clinton has met time and time again,” Brock concluded.
