“That is what Secretary Clinton’s team has conveyed,” Psaki said.
Yet again, note the absence of any confidence that Clinton has told the administration the whole truth and nothing but the truth about her emails.
From the White House’s perspective, there’s nothing to be gained from climbing out on a limb to defend Clinton. Nobody in the administration can in good conscience defend what she did, especially now that she has admitted destroying 30,000-plus emails out of a larger group of documents that were the subject of active requests and subpoenas from Congress.
So that is the position Clinton finds herself in today. Republicans are after her for more information, Democrats are nervous about defending her, and the administration colleagues who are in the best position to vouch for her won’t even say they believe what she has told them. Clinton may escape this mess, but she’ll have to do it on her own.
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