Hillary Clinton finally responded to the growing crisis over her use of a private e-mail account as secretary of State via Twitter Wednesday night.
“I want the public to see my email,” she wrote at 11:35pm ET, generating thousands of retweets and favorites amid several critical responses. “I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 5, 2015
Until Wednesday, Clinton has refused to comment publicly on the now-infamous revelations that were scooped by The New York Times in an article published Monday evening.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf confirmed that State will conduct the review process “as quickly as possible,” according to CNBC.
“The State Department will review for public release the emails provided by Secretary Clinton to the department, using a normal process that guides such releases,” explained Harf in a statement. “Given the sheer volume of the document set, this review will take some time to complete.”
Clinton’s tweet references the 55,000 pages of e-mails that were released by her aides to the State Department following the government agency’s discovery that Hillary’s virtual messages were not catalogued on department servers, as is mandated by the Federal Records Act.
Despite her neglect of the controversy — which has been tirelessly covered by even liberal media outlets — for 48 hours, Clinton did not keep her mouth entirely shut between Monday and Wednesday.
She delivered the keynote address at the 30th anniversary celebration for EMILY’s List Tuesday, where she focused on equal pay and trending topics in the social media world besides her exposed aversion to government e-mail accounts.
Clinton’s tweet comes just as individuals are questioning the damaging effect the reports about her private e-mail could have on her eventual presidential campaign, which Hillary is expected to announce in the near future.
