Key questions remaining about Clinton’s e-mails

Hillary Rodham Clinton answers questions about her use of private e-mail while a nation’s tip diplomat. ( Richard Drew, AP)

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she complied with a law

While she answered questions about her e-mails, some pivotal points will continue to be scrutinized:

Was confidence compromised?

“There were no confidence breaches,” Clinton said. She explained that a server used to residence her private e-mail was set adult for use by former boss Bill Clinton’s bureau with “numerous safeguards” and located on skill stable by a Secret Service. But Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., authority of a House Select Committee on Benghazi, pronounced after Clinton’s news contention that “serious questions” sojourn about a confidence of a e-mail complement and who had entrance to a server given Clinton left a State Department in Feb 2013.

What did Clinton give to a State Department?

Clinton perceived a minute antiquated Oct. 28, 2014, from a State Department seeking 4 former secretaries of State to yield work-related e-mails that competence be on a personal comment — as destined by a Federal Records Act. She pronounced she destined her counsel to “err on a side of providing anything that could be connected to work.” Clinton was a initial to respond to a request, she pronounced in a memo sent to reporters by her office

Clinton gave a State Department her work-related e-mails in December, a memo from her bureau said. State sent a House Select Committee on Benghazi e-mails it had requested per a 2012 lethal conflict on a U.S. devalue in Libya in February.  Gowdy pronounced Sunday on CBS’ Face a Nation

How many e-mails are we articulate about? 

Clinton’s bureau pronounced there were 62,320 e-mails that were sent and perceived from Mar 2009 to Feb 2013. Clinton described half as being “work related.” A sum of 30,490 e-mails — printed out as compulsory in a Foreign Affairs Manual — were sent to a State Department, her bureau said. Those e-mails paint 55,000 printed pages to State. The remaining 31,830 e-mails were personal.

How did Clinton confirm what to give to State?

Clinton’s bureau pronounced a hunt was conducted for any .gov e-mail address, that constructed some-more than 27,500 e-mails (or over 90% of a printed copies given to State). Then a hunt was conducted for what was described as “non-obvious or non-recognizable” e-mail addresses, including misspellings. Finally, a hunt was conducted for specific terms, including “Benghazi” and “Libya.”

What about a Republican call for an eccentric judge to examination her e-mails?

Clinton indicated she would not determine to such a step. “I went above and over what we was requested to do,” she said, adding that she has taken “unprecedented steps.” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus criticized Clinton’s response. “No one though Hillary Clinton knows if she handed over each applicable e-mail,” he pronounced after a news conference.

How can we be certain Clinton did not get absolved of work-related e-mails when she rejected personal ones?

We can usually go by what Clinton says. She pronounced she “didn’t see any reason” to keep private communications such as those to her father and family. Ultimately, Clinton said, each sovereign worker who uses multiple inclination and e-mail accounts

Will this debate derail her skeleton to run for a White House again? 

Clinton did not answer approach questions about her destiny domestic plans. But she wouldn’t have endured such doubt Tuesday if she didn’t have a White House bid in mind. “I trust a American people to make their decisions about domestic and open matters,” she said, ostensible to acquire a open examination of her e-mails once they are expelled by a State Department. “I demeanour brazen to carrying a contention about that.”

Contributing: Fredreka Schouten 

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