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   From: rmcboone@naacp.org   
      
   A top aide to Hillary Clinton appeared to worry in March 2015   
   that President Obama might be accused of lying about his   
   knowledge of Clinton’s private email server.   
      
   In a brief email chain released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday, Clinton   
   allies seemed to scurry to respond to Obama’s claim that he was   
   unaware of Clinton’s use of a personal email account while she   
   was secretary of State until after it became public.   
      
   “[L]ooks like POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her   
   personal email when he saw it in the news,” Clinton spokesman   
   Josh Schwerin told other campaign aides in a March 7, 2015,   
   email, using acronyms for the president and Clinton.   
   “[W]e need to clean this up - he has emails from her - they do   
   not say state.gov,” responded Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former   
   chief of staff at the State Department.   
      
   The White House has insisted that Obama was unaware of Clinton’s   
   unusual email setup during her tenure at the State department,   
   even though the two occasionally communicated by email.   
      
   Two days after the emails released on Tuesday were sent, White   
   House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama did know Clinton’s email   
   address but was unaware that she used the account exclusively.   
      
   “The point that the president was making is not that he didn’t   
   know Secretary Clinton’s email address, he did,” Earnest told   
   reporters at the time.   
      
   “But he was not aware of the details of how that email address   
   and that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton and her   
   team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act.”   
      
   The State Department has said that at least 18 emails were sent   
   between Clinton and Obama on her private system.   
      
   Even as thousands of emails from Clinton’s time as secretary of   
   State have been released to the public, those between her and   
   Obama have remained secret. The White House has claimed that the   
   messages should not be made public until after Obama leaves   
   office, in keeping with procedures for presidential records.   
      
   Clinton’s unconventional email setup has loomed over her   
   presidential campaign since last spring; it was the source of a   
   yearlong FBI investigation that concluded this summer without   
   charges being issued. Critics of the Democratic presidential   
   nominee allege that her system allowed her to evade transparency   
   laws and jeopardize sensitive information.   
      
   The email chain released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday is part of a   
   slow and steady release of messages apparently stolen from the   
   inbox of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The Clinton   
   campaign has refused to verify the authenticity of the messages.   
      
   Federal intelligence officials have suggested the WikiLeaks dump   
   is part of a broad campaign by the Russian government to   
   interfere with the U.S. presidential election.   
      
   http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/302666-in-emails-   
   aide-called-to-clean-up-obamas-relationship-with-clintons   
        
      
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