We shared this expectation last evening within hours of finding out about the secret Clinton email accounts.  Specifically, regarding Huma Abedin. If there were other State Department Officers and aides to Hillary who held similar email profiles Abedin would definitely be at the top of the list.

She is.

….And she is not alone.

Huma Abedin and Hillary Clintonundefined

(Left – Huma Abedin and Hillary / Right – Hillary and Philippe Reines)

Gawker, yes Gawker, is highlighting the obvious. Other “Top Clinton Aides” used personal email addresses in an apparent intentional effort to avoid the sunlight within state department emails. Huma Abedin was definitely one of them and GAWKER has proof.

[…] according to a knowledgeable source, at least two other top Clinton aides also used private email accounts to conduct government business—placing their official communications outside the scope of federal record-keeping regulations.

“Her top staffers used those Clinton email addresses” at the agency, said the source, who has worked with Clinton in the past. The source named two staffers in particular, Philippe Reines and Huma Abedin, who are said to have used private email addresses in the course of their agency duties. Reines served as deputy assistant secretary of state, and Abedin as Clinton’s deputy chief of staff. Both rank among Clinton’s most loyal confidantes, in and out of the State Department.

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We were able to independently verify that Abedin used a ClintonEmail.com address at some point in time. There are several email addresses associated with Abedin’s name in records maintained by Lexis-Nexis; one of them is [email protected]. An email sent to that address today went through without bouncing. (read more)

Gawker has an interesting perspective on the issue because at one time Phillippe Reines, Spokesperson and Personal Aide for Hillary Clinton, was in communication with Michael Hastings.  Hastings apparently received THIS EMAIL COMMUNICATION from one of the non-official email accounts.

We discussed it here because Hillary’s aide Reines went full frontal moonbat on Michael Hastings calling him a diatribe of very vulgar names:

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Reines, Philippe I wrote:


Why do you bother to ask questions you’ve already decided you know the answers to?

______________________________________
From: Michael Hastings
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:50 PM
To: Reines, Philippe I 
Cc: Nuland, Victoria J
Subject: Re: Request for comment 



Why don’t you give answers that aren’t bullshit for a change?

______________________________________
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Reines, Philippe I wrote:
I now understand why the official investigation by the Department of the Defense as reported by The Army Times The Washington Post concluded beyond a doubt that you’re an unmitigated asshole.

How’s that for a non-bullshit response?

Now that we’ve gotten that out of our systems, have a good day.

And by good day, I mean Fuck Off

______________________________________
From: Michael Hastings
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 01:40 PM
To: Reines, Philippe I 
Cc: Nuland, Victoria J
Subject: Re: Request for comment

Hah—I now understand what women say about you, too! Any new complaints against you lately?

______________________________________
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Reines, Philippe I wrote:


Talk about bullshit – answer me this: Do you only traffic in lies, or are you on the ground floor of creating them?

And since Fuck Off wasn’t clear enough, I’m done with you. Inside of 5 minutes when I can log into my desktop, you’ll be designated as Junk Mail.

Have a good life Michael.

______________________________________
From: Michael Hastings
Date: Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Request for comment
To: “Reines, Philippe I” 
Cc: “Nuland, Victoria J”


I’ll take that as a non-denial denial.

All the best,

Michael

(The full exchange is still on Buzzfeed HERE)

It was relevant in 2012 because of the 2010 WikiLeaks Cable Controversy where these same entities were using the same attitude, behavior, and expressions to talk about various world leaders.

WikiLeaks exposed the embarrassing cables to the world showing how the U.S. State Department was talking about heads of state.   This sent Hillary Clinton on a multi-nation apology tour which lasted over a year.

So fast forward to 2012 and Gawker tried -and failed- to use FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) sunlight to gain the full copies of Reines State Department emails and emails with other similarly minded reporters.   The State department responded to the FOIA request by saying there were no emails between Reines and reporters:

[…]  That request was confoundingly denied on the grounds that the State Department had no record of Reines—whose job it was to communicate with reporters—emailing Hastings or any other journalists (Gawker is currently appealing the rejection). (more)

With the newly gained insight of the past few days it is now apparent why the State Department could not find those emails.

Oh, what a tangled web is weaved…..

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(December, 2013 – White House Meeting)

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