Contracts: Hillary owns transcripts and rights to her paid speeches

And last month, when the intelligence community prevented the release of more than 20 emails, Clinton and her aides, again, demanded transparency. (“We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails.”)

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But just days before the New Hampshire primary, amid calls to release transcripts from her closed-door paid speeches, Clinton hasn’t been quite as forthcoming.

At the last Democratic debate, moderators asked whether Clinton would in the spirit of “full disclosure” be willing to publish transcripts of speeches she delivered after leaving the State Department in 2013 — including to financial firms like Goldman Sachs. “I don’t know the status,” Clinton replied, “but I will certainly look into it.”
Contracts from two paid speeches — made public through records requests in 2014 — each include the same boilerplate language ensuring that Clinton alone owns the rights to the contents of her speech and any reproductions of her speech.

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