Hillary Clinton’s emails are a political firestorm. They are also a fascinating window into how the sausage of development policy gets made — or doesn’t — inside the world’s most powerful foreign aid engine.
The former Secretary of State has responded to an ongoing controversy about her use of a private email server during her time as the White House’s top diplomat by gradually releasing troves of work-related messages to scrutiny. Now, lawyers, political operatives and journalists are poring over them — for state secrets and behind-the-scenes clashes, character insights and insider gossip.
It takes a little more digging and more creative keyword searches to unearth the buried exchanges that raise the curtain on episodes that defined Hillary Clinton’s development legacy during her tenure at the State Department.
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Michael Igoe@AlterIgoe
Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.