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   From: rmcboone@naacp.org   
      
   Even a president-elect needs to send email. And as a result of   
   the stolen email messages released by WikiLeaks, we now know   
   what President Barack Obama's email address was during the   
   presidential transition at the end of the 2008 campaign:   
   bobama@ameritech.net.   
      
   Five emails to or from that address show up in the hacked email   
   file of John Podesta, head of the Hillary Clinton campaign.   
   Dating back to the end of the 2008 campaign, the emails show   
   that the Obama team was focused on getting the new   
   administration up and running even before Election Day 2008.   
      
   In one email dated Oct. 30, 2008, Podesta emailed Obama and   
   advisor Pete Rouse under the subject heading "Economic Staffing   
   Decisions."   
      
   "Barack, Good meeting yesterday," Podesta wrote. "When we got   
   off on the idea of creating an emergency national economic   
   council, we left unresolved two questions that were contained in   
   my 2 page cover memo."   
      
   Podesta pushed for quick decisions on whether William Daley or   
   Daniel Tarullo should run the interim economic staff team early   
   on in the transition. Podesta recommended Tarullo.   
      
   Podesta also reminded Obama that the president-elect had   
   recommended billionaire investor Warren Buffett to the list of   
   potential members of an interim outside economic council. He   
   asked Obama for a decision.   
      
   In a reply time stamped at 11:47 p.m. that night, Obama replied:   
   "I will give you an answer on this tomorrow. Barack." The email   
   noted it was sent via Obama's BlackBerry device using AT&T   
   wireless.   
      
   The Clinton campaign has not confirmed that the emails released   
   by WikiLeaks are legitimate documents, and CNBC cannot   
   independently authenticate the emails.   
      
   Obama was so attached to that BlackBerry that he urged White   
   House security officials to come up with a way for him to be the   
   first president to carry a wireless email device as a sitting   
   president. The Secret Service and U.S. intelligence agencies   
   expressed concern about the prospect of foreign intelligence   
   services gaining access to any device that the president would   
   carry. In the end, they developed a secure workaround and the   
   president was able to continue to use mobile email.   
      
   Disclosure of emails from Obama himself in the WikiLeaks trove —   
   the theft of which intelligence officials have said was enabled   
   by Russian intelligence — indicated that intelligence officials   
   were right to be concerned about the privacy of the president's   
   communications at the time.   
      
   Other emails to "bobama@ameritech.net" do not appear to have   
   generated a reply from the president-elect. (Ameritech was one   
   of seven regional Bells created after the breakup of the Bell   
   system. It was acquired by SBC Communications.)   
      
   In one email sent at 7:39 p.m. on election night of 2008,   
   Podesta emails Obama with some last-minute thoughts on the   
   upcoming G-20 meeting. "I don't want to bug you today," Podesta   
   wrote. "The memo pasted below concerns a possible invitation to   
   the G-20 meeting on November 15."   
      
   That email would have reached Obama just 21 minutes before the   
   major television networks called the election in his favor,   
   making him the next president of the United States. Already,   
   Podesta was focused on what Obama might hear about the G-20 from   
   President George W. Bush in an expected upcoming congratulatory   
   telephone call.   
      
   "On the chance that President Bush would raise this with you   
   tonight, I wanted you to be aware that it is the unanimous   
   recommendation for your advisors that you NOT attend. As long as   
   you are aware of that, we can review the contents of the memo   
   tomorrow."   
      
   In the memo, staffers weighed the pros and cons of accepting an   
   invitation to the G-20, if it were extended. On one hand, the   
   meeting just 11 days after the election would "afford you an   
   early and efficient opportunity to evaluate the positions of   
   leaders from other economically important countries," they wrote.   
      
   But on the other hand: "With at most very limited influence on   
   the outcome of the meeting, you would be associated with it. If,   
   for example, the meeting is widely regarded as an anemic   
   response to grave systemic problems, you will be tied to that   
   perception."   
      
   What's more, they wrote, "Attendance alongside President Bush   
   will create an extremely awkward situation."   
      
   "If you attempt to disassociate yourself from his positions, you   
   will be subject to criticism for projecting a divided United   
   States to the rest of the world. But if you adopt a more   
   reserved posture, you will be associated not only with his   
   policies, but also with his very tenuous global standing."   
      
   The memo also noted that outside economic advisors were   
   unanimously against Obama going to the meeting, including: Bob   
   Rubin, Paul Volcker, Larry Summers, Daley and Tarullo.   
      
   Still, advisors worried that rejecting such an invitation would   
   be seen as rejecting an offer of bipartisan cooperation from the   
   outgoing Bush administration. So they developed four ways to   
   defuse the tension, including heading off an invitation even   
   being made, and heading off speculation about the meeting at an   
   early news conference ("There would likely be a question about   
   your potential attendance at the G20 meeting, something we could   
   make more likely by quietly suggesting to someone that such a   
   question would elicit an interesting answer if asked.")   
      
   Also considered were declining the invitation but sending an   
   advisor in a limited observational role, or declining the   
   invitation entirely. Obama did not attend the G-20 meeting.   
      
   Other emails to Obama's address were much less significant. In   
   one dated Oct. 6, 2008, Podesta emails Obama contact information   
   for Erskine Bowles and "Leon," presumably a reference to Leon   
   Panetta.   
      
   It is likely that Obama has long since been using other email   
   addresses. Politico reported in September that FBI officials   
   showed Clinton aide Huma Abedin a copy of an email exchange   
   between Obama and Hillary Clinton in which Obama used a   
   pseudonym email address. Abedin was amazed that the president   
   used an email pseudonym. "How is this not classified?" Abedin is   
   said to have replied to the FBI agents interviewing her. The FBI   
   report said Abedin asked the bureau for a copy of the Obama-   
   Clinton email.   
      
   It is possible that the Ameritech.net email address is still in   
   some sort of use by Obama officials, however. An email sent by   
   CNBC to the Ameritech.net address did not bounce back as   
   undeliverable on Thursday.   
      
   But no one replied to it, either.   
      
   The email address is valid and working.  Can confirm that.   
      
   http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/20/wikileaks-reveals-barack-obamas-   
   personal-email-address.html   
        
      
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