Obama emailed Clinton at private address, didn’t know ‘details’ of account

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Obama emailed Clinton at private address, didn’t know ‘details’ of account
 

 By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Monday, March 9, 2015



President Obama communicated with Hillary Rodham Clinton via email but didn’t know the “details” of how his secretary of state was using a private, off-the-books email address, the White House said Monday.

“They did have the occasion to email one another. … He was not aware of the details of how that email address and how that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters. “The president did email with Secretary Clinton. I assume he recognized the email he was emailing back to.”

It was revealed last week that Mrs. Clinton did not use an official government email address during her four years in charge of the State Department and conducted all business on a private account. The administration previously has said the president learned of the email scandal via news reports.
 

Mr. Earnest also said that all of Mr. Obama’s emails have been properly preserved in accordance with federal record-keeping requirements. As a result, all of Mr. Obama’s emails with Mrs. Clinton have been saved, Mr. Earnest said.


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White House Reset: Obama Knew Of Hillary’s Private Email

Posted By Neil Munro On 2:28 PM 03/09/2015 In | No Comments



WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama actually did know that Hillary Clinton used a non-government email address when she was secretary of state, but didn’t know the extent of her private email system, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.

“I would not describe the numbers of emails as large. … He was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up,” Earnest said.
 
 

That’s a shift from Saturday, March 7, when Obama told CBS that he learned about Clinton’s private email system in the news.

“Mr. President, when did you first learn that Hillary Clinton used an email system outside the U.S. government for official business while she was secretary of state?” CBS News’ Bill Plante asked.

“Uh,” Obama replied, “the same time everybody else learned it through news reports.”

 
Earnest dodged questions about the president’s knowledge of Clinton’s email practices, and how the administration should respond.

“I’m not going to get into a lot of detail. … The president did email with Secretary Clinton,” he said.

When asked what Obama will do to ensure that copies of all of Clinton’s emails were available to the public, Earnest dodged again. “That might be one step too far. It is the responsibility of the State Department,” he said.

If congressional leaders, such as Rep. Trey Gowdy, want copies of Clinton’s emails, they should contact the State Department, Earnest said.

 
“He should raise that directly with State Department officials,” said Earnest.

Earnest was also asked why there are large gaps in the email records sent by Clinton to the State Department, including a gap during a Clinton trip to the Middle East during which she was photographed using her Blackberry phone.

“Maybe she was using her Blackberry to read the news … or tweeting,” Earnest said.

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