Documents: Clinton owns rights to some speech transcripts

Published February 8, 2016 4:40pm ET



Hillary Clinton has repeatedly dodged calls to release transcripts of her paid speeches to private groups, even as her top rival increases his attacks on her financial ties to the big banks that gave her six-figure sums for those speeches.

While Clinton said during the most recent Democratic debate that she would “look into” releasing the transcripts of her speeches to Goldman Sachs, documents obtained by McClatchy through public records request indicate that in at least some of her contracts, Clinton’s speech agency insisted the former secretary of state retain legal control over anything that was said in the event.

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