--- title: Bernie Sanders: Take 'Hard Look' Hillary Clinton’s Emails description: Bernie Sanders said superdelegates and voters should take a “hard look” at an inspector general analysis of Hillary Clinton’s emails. canonical: https://time.com/4351525/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-emails-superdelegates/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-29T17:49:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T09:07:29.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sanders Says Superdelegates Should Consider Clinton’s Email Scandal og:description: "It was not a good report for Secretary Clinton" og:url: https://time.com/4351525/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-emails-superdelegates/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f0981acc8d2cf6b/6988957b5f570fb347b2121d/bernie-sanders-rally1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Bernie Sanders og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sanders Says Superdelegates Should Consider Clinton’s Email Scandal twitter:description: "It was not a good report for Secretary Clinton" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f0981acc8d2cf6b/6988957b5f570fb347b2121d/bernie-sanders-rally1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bernie Sanders Says Superdelegates Should Consider Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal > Sponsored content. 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Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally in Los Angeles on May 27, 2016. Damian Dovarganes—AP  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:07 AM UTCPublished: May 29, 2016 5:49 PM UTC Bernie Sanders said in a [new interview](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-voters-should-take-a-hard-look-at-clinton-emails-report/) that voters, and [superdelegates](http://time.com/4341060/superdelegates-democratic-convention-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton/) to the Democratic convention, should take a “hard look” at a recent and [highly critical State Department report](http://time.com/4348021/hillary-clinton-emails-ig-report/?iid=sr-link2) on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State. The [Vermont senator](http://time.com/4351489/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-running-mate-vice-president/?iid=sr-link1), who has refrained from attacking his opponent on the email scandal on the campaign trail, mentioned the Thursday report by the State Department’s inspector general during a Sunday appearance on CBS’ _Face the Nation_. The inspector general concluded that Clinton and her senior aides ignored repeated warnings that her private email system was vulnerable to hackers when she was Secretary of State. “It was not a good report for Secretary Clinton,” Sanders said. “That is something that the American people, Democrats and delegates are going to have to take a hard look at.” Earlier in the campaign, Sanders said he was “sick and tired of hearing about \[her\] damn emails.” He said Sunday that the superdelegates and “everybody in America” will be keeping the new report in mind. “But for me right now, I continue to focus on how we can rebuild a disappearing middle class, deal with poverty, guarantee health care to all of our people as a right,” he added. \[[_CBS_](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-voters-should-take-a-hard-look-at-clinton-emails-report/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4351525/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-emails-superdelegates/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4351525/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-emails-superdelegates/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders Says Superdelegates Should Consider Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal","datePublished":"2016-05-29T17:49:34.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T09:07:29.000Z","description":"\"It was not a good report for Secretary Clinton\"","url":"https://time.com/4351525/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-emails-superdelegates/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f0981acc8d2cf6b/6988957b5f570fb347b2121d/bernie-sanders-rally1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f0981acc8d2cf6b/6988957b5f570fb347b2121d/bernie-sanders-rally1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bernie Sanders","caption":"Democratic presidential candidate Sen. 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