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WH Spox: Obama Learns About Clinton Email Probe From Reading The News

White House press secretary Josh Earnest listens as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIH/NIAID, and Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of the Center for Disease Control, speak about the Zika virus during his... White House press secretary Josh Earnest listens as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIH/NIAID, and Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of the Center for Disease Control, speak about the Zika virus during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS
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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that President Obama gets his updates on the investigation into possible misuse of information on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server from news reports, just like everyone else.

Obama said in a “Fox News Sunday” interview that Clinton’s private email server did not endanger national security. That prompted a reporter to ask Earnest during his daily media briefing whether that statement was the President’s personal belief, or stemmed from his knowledge of the emails or the level of risk they posed after being being briefed about them.

“The President has neither sought nor received a confidential briefing or confidential information about the ongoing investigation,” Earnest replied. “The President’s knowledge about this situation is based entirely on public reporting.”

The ongoing FBI investigation focuses on whether classified information was mishandled on the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s email server. Clinton is not said to be the target of the investigation.

Obama further defended Clinton’s email use in the “Fox News Sunday” interview, saying that she would never “intentionally” put Americans at risk. He went on to argue that there were varying levels of classified information, at one point saying, “there’s classified — and then there’s classified.”

Earnest was also asked during his daily media briefing if Obama thought there was information more deserving of protection for national security purposes.

“I think that the President is just making the observation. And I think you’re drawing a pretty clear illustration here, too, of how complicated this picture is,” Earnest replied. “But what’s also true is she has said from the beginning that none of the information that she received or sent from that email account was stamped or marked classified.”

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  1. Well DUH!
    Do you really thing the President of the United States can be bothered to waste valuable briefing time with a low-level FBI-Justice dick-waving contest?
    Please.

  2. “But what’s also true is she has said from the beginning that none of the information that she received or sent from that email account was stamped or marked classified.”

    That was in the news somewhere. The dumbasses out there either can’t read or didn’t read it or don’t want to believe it.

  3. WHAt ? There IS LITERALLY HUNDreds OF FBI Investigating THis CRIME. HER EMAIL address WAS PUBLISHEd by a ROMANIAN HACker WHO HACKED the GOOGLE MAchine TO GET her DNS WHICH oF COurse MADe her vulnerable TO HACKING BY THE Chinese or IRAniaN’s ISIS aND LITERALLY because BENGHAZI. OHBUMMEr= worse PRESIDent EVER.

  4. But but but she shoulda known the emails was gonna be classified later! 'Cause she’s a Time Lord! #Benkake

  5. I particularly liked the retroactively “classified” information about the drone program that appeared in the published news report that Hillary forwarded. Way to keep America’s secrets, State Department!

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