In their own words, longtime Hillary Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills—her chiefs of staff while she served as secretary of state—were frustrated with the way in which Hillary Clinton handled her private email account.
According to a new report by The Daily Caller‘s Richard Pollock on Tuesday morning, a new batch of emails handed over to Citizens United as a result of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department outline those frustrations. It also highlights the complete disregard Clinton had with regard to the sensitive information she handled on a daily basis.
As Pollock reported:
The email indicates that very early into her term as the country’s top diplomat, Clinton’s two closest aides were upset that some of her contacts were emailing her directly.
“Personally, I think it’s outrageous that staff go straight to her on this stuff,” Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin told Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills in an April 3, 2009, email exchange.
“This is unbelievable, and she also should not be giving her email to everyone – b/c she will get stuff like this,” a frustrated Mills replied.
“It’s a long story,” Abedin answered. “She’s not giving her new email to people. People who email her old senate address are still being forwarded to new address. Most of her senate staff had access to that address.”
The blunt talk by her closest aides casts embarrassing new light on the issue of Clinton’s cavalier attitude about email and government information security in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s recent refusal to recommend an indictment.
Clinton’s presidential campaign has been plagued for more than a year by revelations of official Department of State meetings Clinton held with wealthy donors from the Clinton Foundation. Use of the private email system linked to the foundation server at her New York residence to facilitate the meetings is now fueling calls among some Democrats and influential liberal media outlets for the foundation to be shuttered if she becomes president.
Republicans, including Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, favor appointment of a special prosecutor.
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