Political Quotes

“I have come to the floor several times to talk about the ongoing investigation into the private email server of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. While serving as the top diplomat for the United States, she plainly believed she could play by her own set of rules. Instead of using a government server with all of the attendant protections from cyber attacks and intelligence gathering by our adversaries, Secretary Clinton paid a staffer thousands of dollars to set up a private, unsecure email server at her home in New York. So it is pretty clear, based on published reports, that Secretary Clinton went out of her way by paying money out of her own pocket to avoid important laws that Congress has passed to guarantee that the American people actually know what their government is doing. I am talking particularly about the Freedom of Information Act. I haven't heard of any other example of someone in the Federal Government--accountable to the people of the United States--setting up a separate private email server just to conduct official business, not to mention the Secretary of State. It is simply unprecedented. Her actions also put our country at risk, as her private email server was reportedly unsecure. We have heard time and again from those in the intelligence community that her use of an unsecure, private email server left her emails--some highly classified--vulnerable to hacking and cyber attack from our Nation's enemies.…”