Yesterday the White House spokesperson Josh Earnest suggested that President Obama first knew of the existence of a secret Clinton email account after reading about it in the recent papers.  Today President Obama confirmed that espousal:

In interview with @plantecbs, Pres Obama says he learned of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail use "the same time everybody else learned it."

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 7, 2015

Today, Politico is reporting the White House knew specifically about the email accounts in August of last year (2014), and the Clinton aides asked white house officials not to immediately act on anything:

(Politico) The White House, State Department and Hillary Clinton’s personal office knew in August that House Republicans had received information showing that the former secretary of state conducted official government business through her private email account — and Clinton’s staff made the decision to keep quiet.

Sources familiar with the discussions say key people in the Obama administration and on Clinton’s staff were aware that the revelation could be explosive for the all-but-announced candidate for president. But those involved deferred to Clinton’s aides, and they decided not to respond. (link)

Further in the Politico article it cites the timeline of August 2014 notification came as a result of the Select Committee on Benghazi and their inquires into communication within the State Dept. between Hillary and other officials. (more…)

As customary with the Obama Administration…

WASHINGTON DC – The White House Friday implied that President Obama learned former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private email account only after “reading the newspaper.”

“I have no idea when the president first learned,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters of the simmering controversy. “I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if he had learned about that by reading the newspaper. The president has a lot of things on his plate. I’m not sure the details of a senior administration official’s email arrangement lands on the president’s desk with any regularity.” (more…)

… and that’s her story, and she’s sticking to it.

It should be noted that Valerie Jarrett is credited with the actual construction of the communications policies and standards for the Obama White House.

(Via Greta Wire) Fox News has exclusively obtained an internal 2011 State Department cable that shows Secretary of State Clinton’s office told employees not to use personal email for security reasons, while at the same time, HRC conducted all government business on a private account.

Sent to Diplomatic and Consular Staff in June 2011, the unclassified cable, with Clinton’s electronic signature, makes clear to:

[…] “avoid conducting official Department from your personal e-mail accounts” and employees should not “auto-forward Department email to personal email accounts which is prohibited by Department policy.” (more)

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The older media story essentially circled around Bill and Hillary Clinton falsifying the amount of donations given by a big time Democrat fundraiser. Essentially listing the political donation as a far lower donation than actually received.

The Clintons claimed they listed the amount the donor reported; the donor said bulls**t, claiming he gave and reported far more money than was listed on the mandatory disclosures. This put the donor in a position of legal risk because it could appear he falsified documents. The donor claims he reported the correct contribution, it was the Clintons who falsified the amount on the required campaign finance forms.

However, that’s not the important aspect as it relates to today’s headlines. Take the video to 03:40 and listen to what Hillary Clinton admits regarding her use of, and concern with, Email.

Probably paid for by the Clinton Global Initiative… Things are getting really interesting.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails — on a private account she used exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — traced back to an Internet service registered to her family’s home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press.

The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton’s secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some politicians, including Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, who were caught conducting official business using free email services operated by Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. (more…)

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.

RE: Hillary Emails: FOIA request entire account of Huma Abedin in addition to Hillary's personal Email and you'll strike golden deception.

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) March 3, 2015

She is.

….And she is not alone.

(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. (more…)

The insufferable GOP had better knock off using the Clinton email controversy to attack. If the GOP is not careful the substance of the Hillary manipulation and deception will be lost amid the MSM talking points of the controversy merely being a Republican partisan attack.

Framing her defense that way has already protected her Benghazi Scandal from the sunlight of congressional inquiry, and more importantly a public understanding the issues at hand.

A far better approach would be simple questions to people like John “Skippy” Podesta, Admiral Mullen and the ARB authors, about how long they have known that Secretary Clinton was using a personal email account to conduct official U.S. State Dept business.

Get them all on record, then follow-up with a blistering series of “why” questions.

First, it should be recognized that Team Hillary is trying to hide this explosive revelation in the media cycle of the wildly covered Benjamin Netanyahu speech.

Accepting the timing of the story, if you needed further confirmation of how horridly corrupt the Machiavellian schemes are within Team Clinton, well, this latest story represents the “cherry” on the cake.

Remember too, this current revelation must be kept in perspective because it comes on the heels of some other rather conspicuous previous sunlight encumbrances.  Namely the November 2012 Thanksgiving holiday when a mysterious fire took place in the State Department DC office building.  Well, actually directly above her exact office – cause undetermined.

A “fire” which preceded an unfortunate slip and fall for the Secretary, resulting in a concussion, which led to the discovery of a blood clot, that ultimately delayed her congressional testimony before a Senate Hearing into the events of Benghazi two months earlier.

And this latest revelation must also keep in mind an internal State Department Accountability Review Board report where they never actually interviewed Hillary but said they reviewed “all pertinent documents”.  Did those ARB investigators even know about her personal email?   I digress…. (more…)