Feinstein Calls for Clinton to Explain Emails

[Pearson O'Malley]

Senator Dianne Feinstein, the veteran California Democrat, said
on Sunday that Hillary Clinton must “step up” and explain why
she used only a private email address as secretary of state,
comments likely to ratchet up pressure on Mrs. Clinton to
address the matter publicly.

“I think that she needs to step up and come out and state
exactly what the situation is,” Ms. Feinstein said on the NBC
program “Meet the Press.”

She added of Mrs. Clinton: “From this point on, the silence is
going to hurt her.”

Ms. Feinstein’s comments were notably more pointed than earlier
in the week when, in an interview in the Capitol, she said she
did not think there was “any ill intent” on Mrs. Clinton’s part
and counseled patience.

Since then, though, a barrage of additional reports about the
nature of Mrs. Clinton’s email practices have come out, making
senior Democrats anxious — and hopeful that their party’s likely
presidential frontrunner would offer some clarity about why she
used her own email server to conduct government business.

Mrs. Clinton has not spoken publicly about the matter since the
news was posted online on Monday, but she did write on Twitter
on Wednesday night that she wanted the public to see her email.

“I asked State to release them,” she wrote. “They said they will
review them for release as soon as possible.”

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/08/feinstein-
calls-for-clinton-to-explain-emails/