Posted on 03/08/2015 9:07:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Obama broke his silence on Hillary Clinton's private emails ordeal Saturday.
Obama, Clinton's direct supervisor during her four years as Secretary of State, claims he only learned of Clinton's use of a private email address for official State Department business after the New York Times reported it this past week.
"The same time everybody else learned it through news reports," Obama told CBS's Bill Plante in an interview Saturday, when asked how he learned about the apparent abuse of office.
Clinton's declining to use a government email address in favor of a nondescript email address and a "home-brewed" server while conducting government correspondence went against norms of government security and appears to have violated federal law regarding record keeping.
"The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived," Obama said. "I'm glad that Hillary's instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed."
However, Obama declined to criticize his former secretary of state's record.
"Let me just say that Hillary Clinton is and has been an outstanding public servant. She was a great secretary of state for me," Obama said, adding, "I think that the fact that she is putting them forward will allow us to make sure that people have the information they need."
Clinton, the likely Democratic presidential candidate, has not commented on the ordeal in person. She did however take to Twitter late Wednesday night to say she wants her emails released.
"I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible," the former first lady and U.S. senator from New York tweeted.
The State Department said it would take time before her emails can be released.
I’m sure by now it’s a running joke inside this White House to see how often they can trot out this line with a straight face and not get called on it.
The most prophetic and succinct statement about Obama in the past six years was from US House Rep. Joe Wilson: “You lie!”
Fast & Furious. Solyndra. The IRS scandal. The VA Scandal. Now Hitler's email scandal.
I'm sure I'm missing others. Please feel free to contribute.
So this dufus thinks that no ever looked at where the email came from and
said, wait a minute this doesn’t look like a govt account....
Of course the MSM will not put boy wonder on the spot over that...
Forget the emails, the real story is the text messages.
Agree. For some reason people don’t realize what a “ trail” they leave, and they can be retained by someone else and printed out as evidence against them....
Bullstalin
Wow, for supposedly being the “smartest man in the room” he sure gets surprised a lot.
/ sarc
The NSA could send them to Gowdy or to the NYT anytime they wanted to.
But the DC spooks and the boys and girls down in the fusion centers have betrayed their oaths and prostituted themselves.
Wait till Hitler learns from the newspapers that Obama heard about it in the newspapers.
Remember....when newspapers are banned only outlaws will have newspapers.
He even out-lies Billy Clinton - quite an achievement...
Obama, The man in charge of everything, but responsible for nothing.
You gotta give the guy and his handlers some credit. He can play a lot of different acting roles. One time he’s a doofus. The next minute he’s a socialist. Then, he’s a Moslem. After that, he’s an anarchist. Pretty soon he’s an aloof college professor. Next, he’s a community organizer. Sometimes he’s a downtrodden American of African descent. He should never have received a Peace prize, but he might be deserving of an Oscar.
then as any other CEO of any other corp he needs to be removed from his position for not being on top of his underlings behavior
Ha haaaaa!!! Good one.
I think that would probably cause the universe to collapse in on itself.
How many years was she Sec of State???
How many pages are they saying there are of her e-mails?
How many people saw those e-mails & NO ONE noticed that the address Hillary had was NOT a GOVERNMENT address???
What about all the text messages? We have seen her doing those.
The Clintons & the Dems in general are masters at parsing & doing really sinister things.
I sincerely hope this derails any chance to run Hillary for President....
However, if she insists on running, I hope the Republicans trounce her.
Even the most uneducated citizen of the USA knows about hidden information.
18a Sect. V U.S. media Code § 2381
"Hereto forthwith any and all laws regarding the United states of America are void with regards to the Democratic party of the United States and its constituents which are besides citizens, foreign invaders, basically everyone in the entire world while any and all laws must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law when it comes to the Republican party and its constituents even if there is not one shred of evidence a law has been broken. Oh yes, and they get to be harassed by government agencies as well."
The plausible deniability President.
LOL! Perfect! I just know that’s the kind of crap they write to each other, freakin’ arrogant a-holes they are.
From Fox & friends???BAAAAARF!
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