Hillary Clinton is “disqualified and compromised” from leading the nation, according to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, particularly due to the fact that foreign intelligence agencies may have been able to gain classified information from her private server.
“If you look at the many crises we have around the world, she was there at the beginning of almost every one,” the Republican told the Washington Examiner.
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“She put the lives of Americans and people who were helping America at risk by potentially setting up a private, unsecured email server with a complete disregard for the laws governing classified information,” Cotton said. “Then you add to that the fact that she’s deleted tens of thousands of emails, the contents of which we have no idea at this point, and we assume that Moscow and Beijing have them.
“So we worry that she’s not just disqualified, looking at the past, but compromised, looking to the future, because there’s no telling what kind of leverage Moscow and Beijing and Tehran might have over her or other people within her administration with whom she was emailing,” Cotton added.
Cotton, who sits on both the Senate Committee on Armed Services and the Select Committee on Intelligence, holds a prime position when it comes to watching espionage attempts conducted by foreign intelligence agencies. That includes a breach announced last week of the Democratic National Committee’s network, which was linked to the Russian government, but which may also have included an unknown number of independent hackers.
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Cotton, who has been frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for vice president, also criticized Clinton’s tenure leading the State Department, saying that she had mishandled China, the Middle East, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “She was the one who pressed the reset button [with Russia], even after Vladimir Putin had invaded Syria. She was the one who didn’t just advocate for airstrikes in Libya, but also celebrated them in her private email, and called them her ‘biggest accomplishment.’
“She was the one who couldn’t get the status of forces agreement extended with Iraq,” Cotton added. “She was the one who treated China like they were nothing but a partner and an ally. … That’s just her failed policy record.”
