Hmmm: White House Will Block Release of Hillary E-mails to … Barack Obama

By Published on October 31, 2015

Rank has its privileges, after all, and the highest rank can claim executive privilege, the New York Times’ Michael Shear reports.

This makes for an interesting Friday night document dump, no?

The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties to keep presidential communications confidential, officials said Friday.

The mystery doesn’t do many favors for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. It just serves to remind everyone that the White House knew full well that Hillary was using a private e-mail system and never bothered to mention it while Congress and several courts were being told that State had no e-mail records responsive to numerous and legitimate requests related to both oversight and transparency. Keeping those e-mails secret in the middle of an investigation into Benghazi only ties Obama more closely to both the Benghazi probe and Hillary’s e-mail scandal.

The bigger issue for Hillary, though, is the fact that the State Department has again had to classify hundreds of e-mails improperly stored and transmitted as classified, including one she herself sent. The privilege claim is a political issue; the classification issues are potential felonies.

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