Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright defended Hillary Clinton on Friday, claiming “nobody is going to die” because of the business she conducted on an unsecure email server during her own tenure at the State Department.
“She has said she made a mistake, and nobody is going to die as a result of anything that happened on emails,” Albright, a top Clinton surrogate, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
Albright’s comments follow last week’s report by the State Department’s inspectors general which concluded that Clinton violated the agency’s record-keeping rules and never sought permission from the department’s legal team to use a private server.
The Democratic presidential front-runner’s critics have since used the report to wage an attack against her judgement in the court of public opinion, claiming she prioritized her own convenience and weakened America’s national security.
“Think about this, the highest ranking diplomat in the United States — the secretary of state — deliberately broke agency policy to serve her own interests,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement following the report’s release. “Her use of a private email server not only violated department policies, but it was also a clear security risk.”
Ryan claimed the IG report “underscores what we already know about Hillary Clinton: she simply cannot be trusted.”
Albright has previously said she “would not” have approved of one of her aides using a private email server when she was at the helm of the State Department.
