White House Seeks to Keep a few Clinton Emails Secret

In another email exchange, Clinton asked her assistant secretary of African affairs, Johnnie Carson, to draft a response to a message from Ben Affleck regarding his Eastern Congo Initiative.

Lemon responded, “If you’re yelling at me, why would I listen to you?” “But we want more from her than what other leaders are expecting and willing to take”.

#AUCShutItDown, an Atlanta-based group affiliated with Black Lives Matter, issued a statement on the same day, saying that “unfortunately, rhetoric DOES NOT save us, nor does it give confidence to black voters that we can trust Hillary to prioritize the necessity of ensuring our safety”.

“Hillary Clinton is running for president of the United States”.

And after Clinton started using an older Blackberry, apparently for familiarity’s sake, she told aides: “I am quite bereft that I’ve lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry”.

Another protest organizer, Spelman College senior Shiranthi Goonathilaka, said many students were disappointed that Clinton chose to deliver a “lecture” to the students rather than a town hall meeting or another type of discussion.

The visit served as the first leg of a broader push Clinton plans to make on criminal justice, a theme that has been central to her campaign and was the subject of her very first public speech as a presidential candidate.

In Alabama earlier this month, she used a speech in front of black Democrats to blast the state’s white Republican governor for closing driver’s licenses offices in 31 counties, many of them overwhelmingly black. Clinton’s campaign has agreed to stop accepting such contributions.

GOP committee members repeatedly questioned Clinton on whether her friend, Sidney Blumenthal, was acting as her official adviser on foreign affairs, despite the lack of evidence pointing to such a relationship.

A lot of Clinton’s emails were asking aides to print out emails and articles for her (let’s hope she recycled). Villarreal now serves as her campaign’s treasurer.

Other emails highlight the struggles of her daily life at the State Department – from technological issues to sleepless nights.

“I intend to speak out clearly and forcefully, to influence as much as I can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation”, the vice president said.

“On this new berry can I get smiley faces?” she wrote.

A Friday evening story at the New York Times covered the Obama administration’s decision to “try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton”.

As if the the newly released emails weren’t embarrassing enough for Hillary Clinton, they also exposed a moment of technological illiteracy. But there’s also a few bad blood lingering between Obama and Clinton stemming from a comment by Mr. Clinton during the 2008 campaign that Obama’s decisive victory over Ms. Clinton in South Carolina that year was as unimportant as Jesse Jackson taking the state in the 1984 primary.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in March that Obama was aware of Clinton’s unorthodox email address, “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….”