'This is the worst buck-passing I've seen since Hillary's husband decided there was more than one way to define the word "is"'
A cocky Hillary Clinton on Tuesday shrugged off the questions swirling around materials culled from her private email account which the U.S. intelligence community has since classified as 'top secret,' making light of a reporter who asked if she had 'wiped the server' clean.
'What, like with a cloth or something?' Clinton chuckled? 'Well, no. I don't know how it works digitally at all.'
Clinton was one of just 20 high-ranking officials whom President Barack Obama named in a December 2009 executive order as having the authority to classify material as 'top secret.'
That's the designation now given to the contents of two emails that she turned over to the State Department last year from her private account.
An aide to a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee told DailyMail.com shortly after the press conference that Clinton's claim 'is beyond bizarre and entirely nonsensical.'
'She was one of a few dozen people in Obama's administration with the knowledge and experience to decide if something was top secret,' the aide said after a promise of anonymity so he could speak his mind.
'The way you decide if something is classified, when you're the secretary of state, isn't looking for a stamp. It's looking at the contents. This is the worst buck-passing I've seen since Hillary's husband decided there was more than one way to define the word "is".'
Read more: Hillary shrugs off question about whether she wiped her server clean What like with a cloth or something as she insists I did not send classified material on her secret email account Daily Mail Online
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Clinton keeps saying, nothing she sent had a stamp, Top Secret. Well, folks, it was CLINTON'S JOB to mark sensitive material Top Secret! She is not going to get out of this yet. It gets worse, every passing day.
A cocky Hillary Clinton on Tuesday shrugged off the questions swirling around materials culled from her private email account which the U.S. intelligence community has since classified as 'top secret,' making light of a reporter who asked if she had 'wiped the server' clean.
'What, like with a cloth or something?' Clinton chuckled? 'Well, no. I don't know how it works digitally at all.'
Clinton was one of just 20 high-ranking officials whom President Barack Obama named in a December 2009 executive order as having the authority to classify material as 'top secret.'
That's the designation now given to the contents of two emails that she turned over to the State Department last year from her private account.
An aide to a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee told DailyMail.com shortly after the press conference that Clinton's claim 'is beyond bizarre and entirely nonsensical.'
'She was one of a few dozen people in Obama's administration with the knowledge and experience to decide if something was top secret,' the aide said after a promise of anonymity so he could speak his mind.
'The way you decide if something is classified, when you're the secretary of state, isn't looking for a stamp. It's looking at the contents. This is the worst buck-passing I've seen since Hillary's husband decided there was more than one way to define the word "is".'
Read more: Hillary shrugs off question about whether she wiped her server clean What like with a cloth or something as she insists I did not send classified material on her secret email account Daily Mail Online
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Clinton keeps saying, nothing she sent had a stamp, Top Secret. Well, folks, it was CLINTON'S JOB to mark sensitive material Top Secret! She is not going to get out of this yet. It gets worse, every passing day.