Clinton emails need scrutiny

The Democrats claim that Donald Trump has invited Russia to interfere in U.S. politics by conducting electronic surveillance. Russia has already done this by hacking into the Democratic National Committee computer system and releasing some of the information to WikiLeaks. This information showed that candidate Bernie Sanders was badly treated by the DNC.

Trump’s suggestion is that if they could do this, perhaps they had intercepted Hillary’s non-government system and have a copy of the missing 30,000 deleted emails. We were told by the FBI that someone could have.

Trump asked Russia, if they had them, to release them to the public. We have Hillary’s assurance that the deleted emails contain no classified data, only mundane personal concerns, so this would not be a national security matter.

It is not Trump who is inviting the Russians to spy on us. It is the Democrat’s lack of concern for cyber security. Trump suggested that the U.S. press would be very interested in these emails. But I believe that Trump is wrong. The U.S. press would not be interested. I would be interested to see if any reference possible donations to the Clinton Foundation, but the press would not be.

Another point is the amount of time Mrs. Clinton spent on personal emails. It takes me more than 10 minutes to write or read an email. At that rate, she spent 5,000 hours doing this. That is two full years of eight-hour days spent doing non-government, personal business. No wonder she accomplished so little as Secretary of State.

This story was originally published August 5, 2016 at 11:55 AM with the headline "Clinton emails need scrutiny."