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.
Thank you. Freepers rock.
...he sure isn’t very adept at running his own administration.
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Obama has never “run” his admin.! The people in (and beyond) his admin. “run” him!
Everything he does is scripted for him by his handlers.
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