The US State Department has said that it would reopen its internal investigation of whether Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account and server compromised her handling of classified material.
"We will aim to be as expeditious as possible, but we will not put artificial deadlines on the process," department spokesman John Kirby said yesterday, noting that the internal review could proceed now that the Justice Department investigation wrapped up with no charges filed against the former secretary of state.
On the threat of terror attacks on the US soil, Clinton
said she will do "everything in my power" to ensure Americans are safer on the streets of San Bernardino or Boston at the end of her presidency than they are today.
She, however, cautioned that achieving this result will be a huge challenge.
"We have got to have an intelligence surge. We have got to get a lot more cooperation out of Europe, out of the Middle East. We have to do a better job of not only collecting and analysing the intelligence we do have, but distributing it much more quickly down the ladder to state and local law enforcement," Clinton said.
She also said the US will have to do a better job combating ISIS online, where they recruit and radicalise and the nation will have to take the support of technology giants in Silicon Valley in disrupting the terror group's online plans.
" I do not think we are doing as much as we can. We need to work with Silicon Valley. We need to work with our experts in our government. We have got to disrupt, we have got to take them on in the arena of ideas that, unfortunately, pollute and capture the minds of vulnerable people. So we need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground and online, in cyberspace," Clinton said.
Making strong case for gun reforms to tackle homegrown threats, Clinton said there is need to pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the US.
She said the solution does not lie in insulting Muslim- American families but in working with America's Muslim partners to defeat ISIS.
"Going after American-Muslims, defaming a Gold Star family, the family of Captain Khan, making it more difficult for us to have a coalition with Muslim majority nations is not going to help us to succeed in defeating ISIS and protecting our American homeland," she said, a reference to Trump's remarks against Humayun Khan, who lost his life while in Iraq for the US military.
