WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama traded emails with Hillary Rodham Clinton while she was secretary of state and knew that she used a nongovernment email account.
Obama had been asked previously how he learned Clinton had used a nongovernment email system for official business, and told CBS News that it was through recent news reports.
But White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama was referring in that interview to the details of Clinton’s home-based email setup and the fact that she was using private email exclusively. He wasn’t referring to the existence of her private account, Earnest said Monday.
He said Obama and Clinton did exchange emails but not a large number. Earnest says any emails between the two would have been preserved according to the Presidential Records Act.
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God, am I the only person who remembers this blockbuster from 2011:
“Just before Mitt Romney left the Massachusetts governor’s office and first ran for president, 11 of his top aides purchased their state-issued computer hard drives, and the Romney administration’s e-mails were all wiped from a server, according to interviews and records obtained by the Globe.
Romney administration officials had the remaining computers in the governor’s office replaced just before Governor Deval Patrick’s staff showed up to take power in January 2007, according to Mark Reilly, Patrick’s chief legal counsel.
As a result, Patrick’s office, which has been bombarded with inquiries for records from the Romney era, has no electronic record of any Romney administration e-mails, Reilly said.”
Yep isn’t that just like a President of the United States to not read the address on all of his emails. I bet in all that spare time he also worried about that pesky font size too. Does he even open his own emails first?
This is just another brouhaha to distract from the tedious workings of the country.
“So?!..Go F___ yourself!” ~ (the) Dick Cheney (It’s good enough for The Dick, it’s good enough for Hillary)
Particularly THIS POTUS. I mean, just what kind of person doesn’t notice the to/from address on an email?
I don’t know what the .gov email addresses look like, but it’s highly likely someone else set up the president’s email address book (I’m sure he’s got other things to do) and that person probably saved the name as “Hilary Clinton”.
How many email addresses are easily visible? I have to work to find most. The TO: address is usually the name of the sender, not the actual address.