\u2018We have nothing to hide,\u2019 former secretary of state says ahead of her and Bill Clinton\u2019s depositions next week \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday 17 February<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton<\/a> has accused the Trump administration<\/a> of a \u201ccover-up\u201d over the Epstein files, while claiming that she and her husband are being forced to testify before Congress to deflect scrutiny from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n In an interview with the BBC<\/a>, Clinton said the US Department of Justice was \u201cslow-walking\u201d the release of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s catalogue of crimes and urged the administration to \u201cget the files out\u201d. Despite periodic document dumps of the files since Congress mandated their release late last year, the justice department is still withholding about 3m files.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018We have nothing to hide,\u2019 former secretary of state says ahead of her and Bill Clinton\u2019s depositions next week \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday 17 February Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump administration of a \u201ccover-up\u201d over the Epstein files, while claiming that she and her husband are being forced to testify before … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}