--- title: Hillary Clinton Emails: She Jokes About Investigation in Iowa description: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joked about an investigation into her use of a private email server Friday. canonical: https://time.com/3999368/hillary-clinton-emails-investigation-joke/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-15T00:56:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:47.823Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Jokes About Email Investigation og:description: "You may have seen that I recently launched a Snapchat account..." og:url: https://time.com/3999368/hillary-clinton-emails-investigation-joke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt196c6445507a14fb/69885f72428a9eb9ffccea8f/hillary-clinton-emails-joke.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked about an email investigation when speaking to Iowa Democrats, dismissing it as just "politics." og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Jokes About Email Investigation twitter:description: "You may have seen that I recently launched a Snapchat account..." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt196c6445507a14fb/69885f72428a9eb9ffccea8f/hillary-clinton-emails-joke.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clinton Jokes About Email Investigation > Sponsored content. 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Watch the top 10 moments from Hillary Clinton's career in politics._ by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Aug 15, 2015 12:56 AM UTC  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked about an email investigation when speaking to Iowa Democrats, dismissing it as just "politics." Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked about an email investigation when speaking to Iowa Democrats, dismissing it as just "politics."Boston Globe by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Aug 15, 2015 12:56 AM UTC Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked about the ongoing investigation over her use of a private email server while at the State Department, telling a group of Iowa Democrats that the hubbub is just “politics.” Speaking to about 2,000 Democrats at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the historic Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Clinton was defiant about the controversy and her use of the personal account, days after turning over her private server to the Justice Department. The agency is probing the handling of classified information on the server—with the U.S. intelligence community saying the account contained at least two emails that should have been labeled Sop Secret. “You may have seen that I recently launched a Snapchat account,” Clinton said at the start of her 25-minute address. “I love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves.” Later, reflecting on Republican attacks on her over the terrorist attack in Benghazi in 2012, Clinton referenced the ongoing investigation. “You know what, it’s not about emails or servers either—it’s about politics,” Clinton said, her voice rising as the crowd of Democratic loyalists cheered. “I will do my part to provide transparency to Americans, that’s why I’m insisting 55,000 pages of my emails be published as soon as possible. I didn’t offer to answer questions for months before Congress. I just provided my server to the Justice Department. But here’s what I won’t do. I won’t get down in the mud with them. I won’t play politics with national security or dishonor the memory of those who we lost.” “I won’t pretend that this is anything other than what it is: the same old partisans games we’ve seen so many times before,” Clinton added. “So I don’t care how many super PACs and Republicans pile on. I’ve been fighting for families and underdogs my entire life and I’m not going to start now.” **Read Next:**[_Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer Readies for Email War_](http://time.com/3998444/hillary-clinton-email-investigation-david-kendall/) ## Transcript [00:00] You know, I'm not [00:04] sittin' here some little woman standing here by my man [00:06] like Tammy Wynette. I'm sittin' here because I love [00:09] him, and I respect him. Now is our chance [00:13] to beat the historical odds, and give the American [00:16] people the health security they need. If there is one [00:19] message that echoes forth from this. Let [00:24] it be that human rights are women's rights and [00:28] women's rights are human rights once and for all. [00:33] The great story here for anybody willing to find it and [00:36] write about it and explain it is this vast right- wing [00:40] conspiracy that has been conspiring. Against my [00:43] husband since the day he announced for president. I [00:45] would be happy to, when you give me the signed [00:47] letters. Well, right here. Right here. When you give me. [00:49] Right here. Sign it right now. We'll shake. We'll shake [00:50] on this, Ray. No, no, I want your signature, cause I [00:53] think that everybody wants to see you signing [00:55] something that you said you were for. You know, I have [00:58] so many opportunities from this country. I just don't [01:01] wanna see us fall backwards. Although we weren't able [01:03] to shatter that [01:08] highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, [01:12] it's got about 18 million cracks in it. The [01:19] battle to stop Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Does [01:23] not end with one death. What difference, at [01:27] this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what [01:31] happened and do everything we can to prevent it from [01:34] ever happening again, Senator. I took the [01:36] unprecedented step of asking that the state [01:39] department make all my work- related emails, [01:43] [ MUSIC ] Public for everyone to see. 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