She used it to show that the top brass already knew, not that she informed them. She was the designated slow working hit lady to whom all the TEAParty cases were being assigned and they already had her working hand in mailed fist with Herr Hull in DC before she sent that email.
So, you aren't arguing with her ~ you're arguing with Reuters perhaps? Or do you know something the original key staffer at the working end doesn't know?
I'm saying that this is being put out in the media at this point in an attempt to provide cover for Washington leaders who want to appear clean.
I'm not buying what they're selling. Maybe the lady did mess up an email. That part could be 100% true. BUT -- that's not how Washington learned that this stuff was happening. Washington ordered it.