COMPARING HER TO NIXON IS PROBABLY UNFAIR. TO NIXON. Leaked Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide’s Secret Spy Network. On the other hand, they make her lapses as Secretary of State even less forgivable, since she obviously knew what was going on. “Blumenthal’s emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations.”