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.
That’s good but it is missing, “Believe me, nobody is madder about it than I am!”
The leader of the only superpower in the world who supposedly gets daily intelligence briefings and he says he gets all his news from the media and is clueless about what is going on.
They are just playing the game for this corrupt "Two-Party-Cartel" somewhat wiser but we the people have finally caught on to this gimmickry.
Obama’s Legacy , “I Know Nothing”
.... Well he is only the President of the United States ..... It's crucial for people to know that only important people in the party would have known about Hillary's fantastic email adventure.
Either this guy is dumber than a brick, or he thinks we are.
Didn’t his staff send her emails? Didn’t they see the address? Wasn’t anything vetted in your administration Mr. Obama?
These folks are crooks, top to bottom.
None of them live by the law or the U. S. Constitution.
can we do a FOIA request on Obama’s email and see if there are any messages from an account at “clintonemail.com” in there?
In 50 years.
>>Either this guy is dumber than a brick, or he thinks we are.<<
You know that doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition.
On TV just like the rest of us. :-)
At the same time Obama is stating that he learned about it from the news, Clinton’s surrogate Lanny Davis is going around telling everyone that it’s no big deal, that “thousands of people” knew she had a private email account.
Think anyone in the fourth estate will bring that little contradiction up, or at least ask Obama who should be fired for not bringing it to his attention years ago?
Of course, the most logical question to him would simply be: “Aw, C’mon! You expect us to believe that?” (If someone actually had the guts to do it, it might just be the classic “emperor has no clothes” moment for this administration.)
Is Jon Stewart still on The Daily Show? So much material; so little time.
I’m trying to imagine the President of the United States not having a clue to what his Secretary of State is doing or even how she was communicating in an unauthorized but official capacity.
This is right up there with Bush’s open borders during war time and his Homeland Security boss Chertoff, having people who entered the country illegally wandering around the inside of his private residence. All during war time.
If Barry is as uniformed as the rest of us why is he President? :-)
He saw a replay of his inauguration when he got home ... from the inauguration.
Still stuck on stupid.
True enough...
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