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The Pinocchio Test
The comparison that Clinton allies and supporters make about the number of emails she turned over compared to her predecessors is misleading, and lacks significant context. This talking point assumes a direct comparison between Clinton and her predecessors, but that is not applicable.
The inspector general report confirmed that Clinton should be judged based on the circumstances and rules applied to her at the time she was secretary, as the rules were much clearer and more sophisticated under her tenure. Albright didn’t have email until she left office. Rice rarely used emails while secretary. So by definition, those two have far fewer — in Albright’s case, zero — email records to turn over.
The only person who regularly used emails is a singular predecessor, Powell. Powell did use his personal account on the job, and by his own admission no longer has access to the account he used then. So while Clinton did turn over more email records than he, she was the only one uniquely in position to do so upon the State Department’s request. This does not absolve Powell for not being able to locate his records a decade later, but the rules for private email retention and non-department email use in general were less clear under Powell.
Further, Clinton was the only secretary of state to conduct her official business solely with a personal private server, which makes her case that much more unique and incomparable to those who came before her. We award this comparison Three Pinocchios.
