Fwd: Statement + Background - LATEST version
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Sara Latham Sep 2, 2015 10:20 PM
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From: Nick Merrill <nmerrill@hillaryclinton.com>
Date: September 2, 2015 at 10:19:10 PM EDT
To: Oren Shur <oshur@hillaryclinton.com>
Cc: Kristina Schake <kschake@hillaryclinton.com>, Joel Benenson <jbenenson@bsgco.com>, David Binder <David@db-research.com>, Christina Reynolds <creynolds@hillaryclinton.com>, Brian Fallon <bfallon@hillaryclinton.com>, Sara Latham <slatham@hillaryclinton.com>, Tony Carrk <tcarrk@hillaryclinton.com>, Teddy Goff <tgoff@hillaryclinton.com>, Robby Mook <re47@hillaryclinton.com>, "Margolis, Jim" <Jim.Margolis@gmmb.com>, Mandy Grunwald <gruncom@aol.com>, "Kendall, David" <DKendall@wc.com>, "Turner, Katherine" <KTurner@wc.com>, Heather Samuelson <hsamuelson@cdmillsgroup.com>, Huma Abedin <ha16@hillaryclinton.com>, david@dixondavismedia.com, rich@dixondavismedia.com, John Anzalone <john@algpolling.com>
Subject: Statement + Background
StatementWe have been confident from the beginning that Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email was allowed and that she did not send or receive anything marked classified. She has made every effort to answer questions and be as helpful as possible. This has always extended to her aides as well, including Bryan Pagliano. She is eager to testify in a public hearing in October and she has encouraged her aides to testify as well. In fact, two of those aides are due to testify this week.On Background:>From the beginning, Hillary Clinton has continued to encourage cooperation even as the committee's inquiry has ventured beyond the events at Benghazi, which had been the original scope of its mandate, to also include her use of a personal email account.Already, several of Clinton's senior-most aides from the State Department are scheduled to give sworn interviews to the committee, as Clinton herself will do at an open hearing in October.We had hoped Bryan would also agree to answer any questions from the committee, and had recently encouraged him to grant the committee's request for an interview.Bryan is an utter professional and a wonderful young man who does not live in the public eye and understandably may not wish to be drawn into a political spectacle.So his decision is both understandable and yet also disappointing to us, since we believe he has nothing at all to hide about his role providing IT assistance.On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Oren Shur <oshur@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:Sure we want to say "all" of her aids, rather than just "her aids"?Also not sure we need "as" at front
Sent from my iPhoneAdding Joel and Binder.On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Nick Merrill <nmerrill@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:How's this look?StatementAs we have been confident from the beginning that what Hillary Clinton did was allowed, and she has made every effort to answer every questions and be as helpful as possible. That has always extended to her aides as well, including Bryan Pagliano. She is looking forward to testifying in a public hearing in October, and she has encouraged all of her aides to do so as well. In fact, two of those aides are due to testify this week.On Background:From the beginning, Hillary Clinton has continued to encourage cooperation even as the committee's inquiry has ventured beyond the events at Benghazi, which had been the original scope of its mandate, to also include her use of a personal email account.Already, several of Clinton's senior-most aides from the State Department are scheduled to give sworn interviews to the committee, as Clinton herself will do at an open hearing in October.We had hoped Bryan would also agree to answer any questions from the committee, and had recently encouraged him to grant the committee's request for an interview.Bryan is an utter professional and a wonderful young man who does not live in the public eye and understandably may not wish to be drawn into a political spectacle.So his decision is both understandable and yet also disappointing to us, since we believe he has nothing at all to hide about his role providing IT assistance.--Kristina Schake | CommunicationsHillary for America
