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<\/a>Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waits to speak at the at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding in Iowa. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel)<\/p><\/div>\n
Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on Monday compared the email controversy engulfing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Woodward, who through his reporting helped break open the Watergate scandal, said it’s at least suspicious that Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state were wiped away<\/a> from a server she owned privately.<\/p>\n “Follow the trail here,” Woodward said. “There are all these emails. Well, they were sent to someone or someone sent them to her. So, if things have been erased here, there’s a way to go back to these emails or who received them from Hillary Clinton. So, you’ve got a massive amount of data in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes: Thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that Nixon thought were exclusively his.”<\/p>\n News broke earlier this year that Clinton relied on a private email address and server, rather than a government-owned one, when she served at the State Department. Subsequent reports<\/a> said that she received classified and top secret information through that system. Federal officials have since taken Clinton’s server and are continuing an investigation into whether its security was compromised.<\/p>\n