On Saturday President Obama told CBS he found out about Hillary’s personal email use via news media reports. Yesterday an editor at Gawker, John Cook, told CNN he personally emailed Josh Earnest questions about the Hillary personal email use in 2013 asking about records and appropriatness.
Today Josh Earnest said President Obama and Hillary did email each other, but President Obama didn’t actually know about Hillary’s email issue…. or something similar. Maybe. Well, um, you decide:
“The point that the president was making is not that he didn’t know Secretary Clinton’s email address, he did. But he was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act.”
As Politico puts it: When pressed on whether Obama was aware that Clinton was conducting business over her private email, Earnest responded, “the point is the president did email with Secretary Clinton. I assume that he recognized the email address that he was emailing back to,” before saying that the important issue is whether she complied with the Federal Records Act. (link)
You can always judge the scope of the unlawful/unethical conduct with a professional Democrat by the size of the belligerent response.
James Carville and Lanny Davis are the paid professional defenders and attack soldiers for Team Hillary. Both have been part of the Clinton Camp for decades. You can always identify when an issue is dangerous because Davis and Carville pull out the same routine.
At the tail end of this CNN interview a rather remarkable revelation. John Cook actually emailed Josh Earnest back in 2013 about the Hillary Clinton secret email account. Cook specifically asked Earnest asking if Clinton’s email comported with the Presidential Records Act and rules of FOIA.
In 2013 Josh Earnest was President Obama’s Press Secretary, he is now the White House Spokesperson. Yesterday Obama denied any knowledge of the Clinton email account.
A writer for Breitbart picked up on it too. (Breitbart) Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” John Cook, the executive editor for investigations at Gawker Media, said in 2013, after emails from Clinton to Sidney Blumenthal, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, leaked, he “alerted” White House press secretary Josh Earnest that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was using a private email account.
….Anyone feel like rappelling down this rabbit hole? I mean we’re already on just about every professionally deceptive government agencies watch list….
WASHINGTON DC – March 8, 2015 “Follow the money.” That apocryphal phrase, attributed to Watergate whistleblower “Deep Throat,” explains why the biggest threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential dreams is not her emails.
It’s her family foundation. That’s where the money is: corporate money, foreign money, gobs of money sloshing around a vanity charity that could be renamed “Clinton Conflicts of Interest Foundation.”
What about the emails? Hillary Clinton’s secret communications cache is a bombshell deserving of full disclosure because of her assault on government transparency and electronic security. But its greatest relevancy is what the emails might reveal about any nexus between Clinton’s work at State and donations to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Foundation from U.S. corporations and foreign nations. (more…)
Quick thoughts about substance to Gowdy media appearance:
Hillary has deleted her now infamous avatar showing her on board a military plane en route to Libya.
The picture was taken in 2011 by Time Magazine and titled “Clinton checks her PDA in sunglasses upon departure in a military plane from Malta, bound for Tripoli, on October 18, 2011.” She claims the removal as part of a campaign to raise awareness of women’s rights. However, given the nature of this Gowdy revelation it’s easy to see the real motivation.
(Via Daily Signal) During an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” today, Rep. Trey Gowdy said there are “huge gaps” in the emails he has received from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
[…] Gowdy mentioned the “iconic” photo of then-Secretary Clinton during that trip, looking at her “handheld device.”
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."
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…)
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…)
It should be noted that Valerie Jarrett is credited with the actual construction of the communications policies and standards for the Obama White House.
