www.tpnn.com |Colleen Conley|56 minutes ago
While Hillary fumes over the State Department’s refusal to release 22 of her emails from her tenure as secretary of state — deeming them too highly classified to be made public — something equally, if not more, disturbing about this particular court-ordered email dump has come to light.
As the New York Times points out, State announced that 18 emails exchanged between then-Secretary Clinton and President Obama are also being withheld from public view. While John Kirby, spokesman for the State Department, said the emails in question do not involve classified information, tradition holds that presidential communications are typically not released until a much later date.
The news is enlightening, however, in view of what Obama has said about the Clinton scandal resulting from Hillary’s exclusive use of a personal email server that was unsecured and not protected by governmental firewalls.
As Breitbart pointed out, the news that Clinton-Obama communications were managed through Hillary’s personal server raises the appearance of a confict between what the president said and what he actually knew. Breitbart notes that “the New York Daily News reported last March that Obama said he discovered Clinton’s use of a personal email server through the media.”
Obama, it now seems, knew about Clinton’s use of a private server on which she conducted official government business as he personally sent her messages on that very system.
While Hillary is increasingly finding herself under fire for “Emailgate”, it may be that Obama himself will be caught up in the scandal as it continues to unfold. Recall Howard Baker’s famous question during the Watergate investigations: “What did the President know, and when did he know it?”
The Clinton campaign has decried the State Department’s withholding of 22 emails just days before the all-important Iowa caucuses, stating in an email blast that it “is overclassification run amok” and urging them to be made public. Clinton argued that the emails in question were not marked top secret at the time they were sent “and have been called ‘innocuous’ by certain intelligence officials.”
You can watch President Obama’s claim of having no knowledge of the email server by clicking on the video below, as the president spoke with CBS News
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