WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s doctor has pronounced her fit and healthy despite a concussion and associated medical problems in 2012, according to an assessment released by the Clinton campaign Friday.
Clinton is a healthy 67-year-old with a history of hyperthyroidism and deep vein thrombosis, internal medicine specialist Lisa Bardack wrote in summarizing Clinton’s health.
The “health letter” was released on the same day the campaign also plans to release seven years of joint tax returns for Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.
Those records show the couple earned nearly $142 million between 2007 and 2014, according to eight years of federal returns.
The returns show that the Clintons paid an overall federal tax rate of 35.7 percent during those years. The bulk of the Clintons’ income came from speeches delivered to corporate and interest groups by Bill Clinton and later by Hillary Clinton after she resigned as secretary of state in early 2013.
In a statement released by her campaign, Hillary Clinton said the couple has paid nearly $44 million in federal taxes on $141.9 million in income since 2006, and donated nearly $15 million to charity.
The campaign made both sets of documents available the same day the State Department released the latest crop of e-mails from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. The release showed that dozens of e-mails that traversed Clinton’s private, unsecure home server contain national security information now deemed too sensitive to make public.
In 2,206 pages of e-mails, the government censored passages to protect national security at least 64 times in 37 messages, including instances when the same information was blacked-out multiple times. Clinton has said she never sent classified information from her private e-mail server, which The Associated Press was first to identify as operating in her home in New York.
The Friday release brings the volume of e-mails publicly released by the State Department to roughly 12 percent of the 55,000 pages Clinton had turned over to department lawyers earlier this year. That falls short of the 15 percent goal set by a court ruling in May, a lag the State Department attributed to interest by the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community in the possible compromise of information.
There were no obviously stunning revelations in the e-mails released Friday. Some of the documents could reflect favorably on Clinton, such as a message in August 2009 about a 10-year-old old Yemeni girl who had been married and divorced, and had been portrayed as unhappy in a CNN story. “Is there any way we can help her? Could we get her to the US for counselling and education?” Clinton asked an aide, who began making calls.
