Clinton said her action was “for convenience.” Others say she wanted her correspondence to remain private and confidential, and from this perspective she must be held accountable. Still, the US State Department investigated the email kerfuffle twice, and both times it attested to Clinton’s intention but considered her to have been “careless” in handling classified information.
Thousands of Clinton’s e-mails were declassified in 2015, but thousands of others were not, and today US President Donald Trump is demanding their disclosure. He has reprimanded Mike Pompeo, the present US secretary of state, for not having released them thus far, prompting Pompeo to announce his intention to do just that.
In the meantime, many of the emails have been leaked or disclosed. The bulk of the e-mails are of no interest to Egypt, but several are quite incriminating, exposing the degree of collusion between the former Obama administration in the US and the Muslim Brotherhood group. Top secret information was loosely passed on to Clinton as a confidante and a backer though she was also of course a non-Egyptian of obscure intent.
One e-mail dating from as far back as April 2010 reveals the connections between Clinton and the Aljazeera TV channel. On a one-day trip to Doha where Aljazeera is based, Clinton was first to meet Waddah Khanfar, director-general of the Aljazeera Network, and the general manager of the English-language Aljazeera channel Tony Burman at a dinner in her honour. The e-mail also discussed a visit by the Aljazeera delegation to Washington at a later time.
Another e-mail informed Clinton of a plan to establish a media network in support of the Muslim Brotherhood and to have Khayrat Al-Shater, a senior member of the Brotherhood, at its head. The Qataris would have bankrolled this network with $100 million, corroborating their allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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