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Hugo Rifkind

The real lesson of the Hillary Clinton emails: most secrets are boring

Unreleased documents are never, ever as exciting as you think they will be

5 September 2015

9:00 AM

5 September 2015

9:00 AM

‘Gefilte fish,’ emailed Hillary Clinton to a pair of aides in March 2010, ‘where are we on this?’

That was it. Two words in the subject line, five more in the body. Nobody really knows what she was on about. Maybe it was code, maybe it was a reference to a new Israeli import duty slapped upon carp fillets from Illinois.

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