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Obama claims he learned about Hillary Clinton emails 'the same time everybody else learned it'
Washington Examiner ^ | 03/08/2015 | Kelly Cohen

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2016election; benghazi; election2016; hillaryclinton; hitlery; libya; southcarolina; treygowdy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


21 posted on 03/08/2015 9:19:44 AM PDT by mellow velo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The most prophetic and succinct statement about Obama in the past six years was from US House Rep. Joe Wilson: “You lie!”


22 posted on 03/08/2015 9:19:48 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let's see. So what has he learned about so far from news reports?

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.

23 posted on 03/08/2015 9:20:44 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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...


24 posted on 03/08/2015 9:21:10 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Travis McGee

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....


25 posted on 03/08/2015 9:22:26 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bullstalin


26 posted on 03/08/2015 9:23:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow, for supposedly being the “smartest man in the room” he sure gets surprised a lot.
/ sarc


27 posted on 03/08/2015 9:24:33 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: OKSooner

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.


28 posted on 03/08/2015 9:28:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Texas Eagle
Has anybody compiled all the times he’s “learned” something “the same time as everybody else; through news reports”?

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.

29 posted on 03/08/2015 9:28:36 AM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He even out-lies Billy Clinton - quite an achievement...


30 posted on 03/08/2015 9:28:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama, The man in charge of everything, but responsible for nothing.


31 posted on 03/08/2015 9:28:59 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


32 posted on 03/08/2015 9:30:29 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


33 posted on 03/08/2015 9:30:30 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: spokeshave
Wait till Hitler learns from the newspapers that Obama heard about it in the newspapers.

Ha haaaaa!!! Good one.

I think that would probably cause the universe to collapse in on itself.

34 posted on 03/08/2015 9:30:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


35 posted on 03/08/2015 9:33:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Travis McGee
Yeah but there's a big difference: Nixon was Republican and Hitlery and our first foreign born twice unconstitutionally elected radical Islamic enemy of the United states President are Democrap. I mean you must know the US media written code by now:

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."

36 posted on 03/08/2015 9:36:34 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The plausible deniability President.


37 posted on 03/08/2015 9:37:33 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War II needs to happen.)
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To: Travis McGee

LOL! Perfect! I just know that’s the kind of crap they write to each other, freakin’ arrogant a-holes they are.


38 posted on 03/08/2015 9:37:55 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

From Fox & friends???BAAAAARF!


39 posted on 03/08/2015 9:40:26 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

White House and State Dept.'were alerted about Hillary Clinton's private emails SIX months ago'

Why did they have to be told? Didn't they ever notice that Hillary's email address was some oddball server? Or did they just never send or receive emails from her when she was wrecking US foreign policy?
40 posted on 03/08/2015 9:41:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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