Trump to Panetta: Clinton enabled foreign espionage

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Donald Trump’s campaign accused former CIA Director Leon Panetta of hypocrisy Wednesday night, after Panetta attacked Trump on national security grounds but ignored Hillary Clinton’s carelessness with State Department emails when she was in the government.

“It is alarming that Leon Panetta would, through his silence, excuse Hillary Clinton’s enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme and her corrupt decision to then destroy those emails and dissemble her ‘private’ server to hide her crimes from the public and authorities,” Stephen Miller, senior policy advisor to the Trump campaign, said in a statement.

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