Clinton staff KNEW Hillary had emailed Obama from her secret address -- Daily Mail

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'We need to clean this up': Clinton staff KNEW Hillary had emailed Obama from her secret address even though the president said he learned of it 'through news reports'

• Wikileaks email: Clinton lawyer warned campaign chairman John Podesta that President Obama had emails sent from Hillary's private account
• Obama said in a taped interview with CBS that he learned about the email address 'through news reports'
• 'We need to clean this up,' attorney Cheryl Mills told Podesta after the interview was taped, but before it aired
• The White House scrambled a day after the broadcast say Obama had only been unaware of how Clinton's secret server was set up

Daily Mail
by David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
10/25/2016

Excerpt:

Senior Hillary Clinton aides fretted that President Barack Obama knew she conducted government business through a private email address, despite claiming that he learned about it in news reports.

An email chain released Tuesday by Wikileaks – one of thousands of messages hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's account – memorializes campaign insiders' surprise when the president played dumb during a CBS News interview.

'Jen you probably have more on this,' Clinton national spokesman Josh Schwerin wrote to communications director Jennifer Palmieri on March 7, 2015, 'but it looks like POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he saw it in the news.'

The interview had not yet aired when the email chain began.

Traveling press secretary Nick Merrill forwarded the message to Cheryl Mills, who raised a red flag with Podesta three hours later.

After receiving a copy of Schwerin's email, Clinton lawyer Cheryl Mills told campaign chairman John Podesta that 'we need to clean this up' since 'he has emails from her' that were not sent from an official government email account

'[W]e need to clean this up - he has emails from her - they do not say state.gov,' wrote Mills, who was Clinton's lawyer and served as her chief of staff at the State Department from 2009 to 2013.

In the interview, CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante asked Obama when he learned about Clinton's private email system.

'The same time everybody else learned it, through news reports,' the president replied.

But Mills' email to Podesta indicates the president had already exchanged emails with his onetime secretary of state at her 'clintonemail.com' address.
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We Need to Clean This Up’: Clinton Aide’s Newly Public Email Shows Concern

The New York Times
by Steve Eder
10/25/2016

Excerpt:

In a March 2015 interview, President Obama said that he had learned about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state “the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports.”

But that assertion concerned aides of Mrs. Clinton, who knew that the president himself had received emails from the private address, according to a hacked email made public on Tuesday by WikiLeaks.

“We need to clean this up — he has emails from her — they do not say state.gov,” Cheryl D. Mills, a top aide, wrote to John D. Podesta, another senior adviser, on March 7, 2015.

Two days later, Mr. Obama’s spokesman, Josh Earnest, tried to clarify the president’s remarks, saying that he had, in fact, exchanged emails with Mrs. Clinton through her private account. But Mr. Earnest suggested that the president had no idea the emails could be a problem, because he had relied on Mrs. Clinton to make sure that using a private account did not break any laws.
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