MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell continued to castigate Hillary Clinton’s State Department email practices Tuesday, calling her decision “an absolutely unacceptable choice from the start.” (RELATED: MSNBC’s O’Donnell Blasts Hillary: ‘Convenience Is Not A Choice You Have In Government’)
Appearing on “Morning Joe,” O’Donnell told host Joe Scarborough that while the contents of the e-mails coming out seem to be “reasonable,” the whole issue goes back to her attempt to sidestep the Freedom Of Information Act.
“I think what they’re saying about the contents of the e-mail is reasonable. I don’t think there’s any big smoking gun in there,” O’Donnell told Scarborough initially.
“But look, it goes back to the original issue which is the proper custodial preservation of state department e-mails and all of the rules and protocols on that were violated,” O’Donnell said. “There is no question about it. It was very clearly in violation.”
“And so then, after the violation is made, when she’s a candidate for president, Hillary Clinton says, I have now turned over all State Department e-mails, all of them, and the only stuff I didn’t turn over, after my lawyers went through the server and checked it all, was personal stuff involving weddings and material,” O’Donnell said. “Well, what we’ve not discovered is that statement, as she said it, is not true. That’s the thing that we’ve discovered is not true. How much that actually means and what is the content of the stuff that she didn’t turn over, so far, have been what we have seen there.”
“And we won’t know, unfortunately, because she wiped out the server,” Scarborough told the MSNBC host.
“Yeah, and if you care at all about the Freedom Of Information Act, which is what liberals should care about here, that was an absolutely unacceptable choice from the start that she used an e-mail system that way, and then that she deleted it,” O’Donnell railed. “That was to contradict the Freedom Of Information Act. American’s freedom, the press’ freedom to be able to request these kind of documents. That’s what it was about.”