Wow.
A new release from the Wikileaks trove of emails involving Hillary Clinton and her cohorts shows Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta emailing Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, “On another matter….and not to sound like Lanny, but we are going to have to dump all those emails.”
The exchange came on March 2, 2015, only days before The New York Times revealed Clinton’s private email server. Mills answered Podesta, “Think you just got your new nick name.” The “Lanny” Podesta referred to could be former DOJ staffer Lanny Breuer, who left the DOJ in January 2013, or Lanny Davis, who was special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and spokesman for the President and the White House regarding campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues.
The text of the email leaves it unclear which emails Podesta refers to, though he adds, “better to do so sooner than later.”
What is critical is whether the email hints that Clinton’s claim that she only deleted “personal” emails was false, and that in fact she intended to block the State Department and FBI from pursuing the matter.
Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge points out, “And in a separate email sent out just days later by Clinton campaign communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, we get yet another confirmation that the president actively mislead the public when he said he didn’t know Hillary was using a private email address”:
Suggest Philippe talk to Josh or Eric. They know POTUS and HRC emailed. Josh has been asked about that. Standard practice is not to confirm anything about his email, so his answer to press was that he would not comment/confirm. I recollect that Josh was also asked if POTUS ever noticed her personal email account and he said something like POTUS likely had better things to do than focus on his Cabinet’s email addresses.