Julian Castro Quotes
This thing has been studied to death by Republicans and Democrats: several committees, including in Congress, that have all said, 'Yes, of course what happened was tragic, but Secretary Clinton was not in any way at fault,' and what you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt.
Castro, Julián. Interview. Meet the Press, NBC, 2015.
He was referring to the charge that Richard A. Clark, Chief of Counterterrorism, had politicized the 9-11 investigations. In reality, while the hearings had been apolitical, after he testified, there were massive attacks on him by the Republicans and then massive defenses by the Democrats and the hearings had indeed been politicized. It is noteworthy however that the Commission itself remained bi-partisan in its procedures and votes.
Julián Castro is an American lawyer and politician from San Antonio. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the youngest member of President Obama's cabinet, serving as the 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017. Castro served as the mayor of his native San Antonio, Texas from 2009 until he joined Barack Obama's cabinet in 2014.