Hillary Clinton was conducting government business in secret on her private email account — and the State Department must hunt down every last message she's deleted, Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, tells
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"Mrs. Clinton is putting the falsehood out there that this email account she set up was a private account," Fitton said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."
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"She set up a government account to conduct government business in secret. It's an alias government account.
"The State Department, or the Justice Department or our other appropriate law enforcement should move to seize that information and try to recover deleted material."
Clinton has been under fire for using private email and a private server kept at the family compound in Chappaqua, New York, for government business. She says she deleted her personal emails.
But Fitton, whose government watchdog group has requested all of the emails, believes Clinton deleted records with the hopes that they would not be recovered.
"My guess is like most folks who don't know much about computers, [that] there is something to be found," Fitton said.
"Remember... it was Judicial Watch litigation that exposed the missing IRS emails and it turned out, well, they really weren't missing.
"So Mrs. Clinton wants you to believe they can't be found … as a way to kind of take the wind out of the sails of any government action against her."
Fitton said the government has a double standard in dealing with political heavyweights.
"I tell you, if this was, again, a citizen subject to a federal investigation, there'd be serious consequences for this evasion of the law and the destruction of records," he says.
"If you were a corporate leader and … said to the government who was investigating you, 'Well, I conducted all of my business on my personal account … and I'm going to give you what I think might be really [pertinent], but you can't get a subpoena because it has nothing to do with anything in the company,' obviously, that wouldn't fly and shouldn't fly for Mrs. Clinton."
Fitton — author of
"The Corruption Chronicles," published by Threshold Editions, and executive producer of the documentary "District of Corruption" — said his group has also is filing a number of Freedom of Information requests in relation to the email scandal.
Fitton also said Clinton is mistaken when she says she needed to phones for two different email accounts.
"It's not accurate.... She set it up for convenience's sake and she's admitted and we've heard that she had an iPad, a mini iPad; she was obsessed with those devices," he said.
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