Chris Horner On Revelations That Hillary Clinton Used Private Email Address: 'She's Not To Determine What We Can See'
By Rich Zeoli
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Rich Zeoli talked to Chris Horner, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, about revelations that Hillary Clinton used a private email address for the entirety of her correspondence while serving as Secretary of State.
Horner said that the Secretary of State's correspondence if property of the people and that Clinton does not have the right to use a private email while carrying out her duties.
"These don't belong to her. That's what's being lost in this. They're not hers. They're ours. She's not to determine what we can see or the security under which they're kept. We are. It doesn't matter to her. This is actually unprecedented, despite all that we've found, no one has moved exclusively to their own server."
He think's the decision to work around the guidelines pertaining to email are indicative of nefarious activity on her part.
"There's a fair presumption that if you choose to go offline with certain lobbyists, with certain pressure groups or special interests, it's because you're trying to keep those conversations from the public. In Secretary Clinton's case, she said, 'you'll see later, after I'm gone, what we decide to turn over to you.' That's not what the law says. It's just the law according to the Clinton's."
Horner contends the former Secretary of State broke the law with her actions and the public deserves to see all of the emails from her private account.
"Even the Obama White House said it is unlawful, a violation of the Criminal Code, if you put classified information on a private account even if you also have it on the government's computers. Hillary Clinton, by choosing to just say, 'you'll see what I think you deserve to see after I'm gone,' which is what happened. She decided what the public should see, as opposed to the law sorting through it, through government officials, lawsuits, the courts, and so on."
