Two aides in charge of running (click here) Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were taken aback as news broke in March 2015 of Clinton's use of private email for her work as U.S. secretary of state, according to stolen emails published on Thursday by WikiLeaks.
The late-night exchange between Robby Mook, Clinton's campaign manager, and John Podesta, the campaign chairman, happened within hours of the New York Times breaking the news that Clinton exclusively used a private email account in a way that may have broken records rules.
"Did you have any idea of the depth of this story?" Podesta wrote to Mook at 10:27 p.m. on the night the Times story appeared online, according to an exchange published by WikiLeaks.
A few hours later, at 1:32 a.m., Mook wrote back: "Nope. We brought up the existence of emails in research this summer but were told that everything was taken care of."...
The Clintons were obsessing over a private email server. There have been extensive criticism of Hillary's plans to hide any controversy on her way to the White House. This proves to me there was no obsessing. Heck, they never thought anything of it. Hillary or Bill didn't say to their most trusted aides, "We have secured any and all controversy in a private server and there is no need to worry about it."
The fact that Hillary and Bill Clinton did not have a clue about the controversy a private server would make. They never planned to hide anything.
Like I said, the Obama Administration is the first to have an electronic White House. The rules were written and there was no reason to suspect any wrong doing. They are not guilty of anything.
