The storm surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of personal email for government business is a rush to judgment before all of the facts in, says David Goodfriend, former deputy staff secretary to President Bill Clinton.
"Part of what's going on here is we have a rush to conclusions before we have evidence," Goodfriend, a Democratic strategist, said Friday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
Newsmax TV.
"Secretary Clinton herself has said, 'I turn over documents as requested, as needed, I turned over 50,000, I'll turn more if need be.'"
Last week, The New York Times revealed Clinton used her personal email account to conduct State Department business and maintained a server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
The former secretary of state, insisting she has turned over all correspondence she is legally required to, has said she will not allow an independent third party to review some 30,000 emails contained on her home server because they are "personal."
Goodfriend said government officials routinely write emails, some which are public and some private.
"Sometimes there's crossover. Is that a crime? Is that a violation of policy? Is it an oversight?" he said. "We can ask these questions and will ask these questions from now until Election Day assuming Hillary Clinton runs."
Goodfriend said some are already concluding that "Hillary is toast, this is it, it's over, this is the big one … I would paraphrase Mark Twain in saying rumors of political death are greatly exaggerated."
He added that all government agencies have "an enormous amount of discretion … to decide what is confidential, what is highly sensitive and what is not" as far as what should be maintained.
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