Matt Whitaker: 'Very Few' Consequences For Hillary

Even if it's determined that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton violated the Federal Records Act by using a private email address and server instead of a government one for official business, there's not much that can be done to punish her, former U.S. Attorney and Executive Director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust Matt Whitaker said Thursday on Newsmax TV's "America's Forum," where he appeared with former Florida Rep. Mark Foley and former Pennsylvania Rep. Bob Walker to discuss the controversy.

"The act has very few consequences, even if she broke the law," he said. "To some extent, it's to keep government records so that future generations and future administrations and private citizens can review these things."

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"What we've seen right now is that she didn't follow the rules. There is no criminal sanction under the archive law that we can find. Some of it is a very sophisticated Clinton State Department that figured out that they can do this without many consequences, if any."

In order to instill the public trust, Clinton should not be permitted to review the emails before the State Department, Whitaker said.

"We'd like to see something that isn't a two-step review where first Secretary Clinton gets to review these emails and then give them to the State Department reviewed," said Whitaker. "What we really like to see is all of the emails and the public should get that.

"The accountability in Washington D.C. and especially among Secretary Clinton is just not there. A lot of Americans don't trust them, don't trust former Senator and Secretary Clinton.

"We need to see them all to really know the inner workings of not only her as secretary of state, but also the interactions between her and the Clinton Foundation and all the moving parts that are going to be part of her apparent now presidential campaign."

Walker suggested it may be too late, that Clinton has already had "a long time to scrub a lot of her own emails."

The use of private email accounts in the capacity of a public position is dubious, Foley added.

"When you're in government, you use government servers and emails," Foley said. "You know that. The Democrats found my emails, we can't find theirs is very interesting to me. The security of our nation discussing trade, security and she's on her own server? It absolutely makes no sense."

In addition to the appearance of impropriety, using private servers also poses a security risk, according to Whitaker.

"I would imagine the State Department has tremendous security issues," he said. "All servers in the United States are under constant attack from hackers from Russia, China and elsewhere and this raises so many concerns. I'm not sure we'll ever see the full deck of emails from Secretary Clinton."

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