Subject: Re: Hillary Clinton Was Asked About Email 2 Years Ago - NYTimes.com
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>
Cc: Karen Finney <[email-masked]>, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>, Heather Samuelson <[email-masked]>, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>, hrcrapid <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:22:23 -0400
List-Id: <hrcrapid.googlegroups.com>

Yep. So helpful.
Nick/team -assume all are fine if we distribute proactively to surrogates -
only as needed for those who are doing TV tomorrow and may request?

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:17 PM, Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>
wrote:

and for surrogates - not the campaign - i'd get the point in there about
how all the Republicans have the same or similar "problems"

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> For the last one I'd say we'll respond when appropriate but we also aren't
> going to let this kind of charade distract from what this campaign is
> about: people
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:07 PM, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> This reflects talking this through with Jen and then Karen, let's tweak
> but try to turn around quickly.  Adding Cheryl and Heather as well for
> their eyes.
>
> *Surrogates Q&A in Response Issa Letter/NYT Story*
>
> - We've been over this, and over this, and over this again.  She had an
> email account.  She used that email account to correspond with over 100
> people inside the State Department, outside the State Department, likely
> even some Republicans.
>
> - This was not a secret being kept, it was an email address.  And she
> followed the letter and spirit of the law.
>
> - And let's remember something.  This was a 2012 letter, isn't it
> interesting that it's coming out over 2 years later in 2015, the first day
> she begins campaigning in Iowa?  What does that tell you about this?  It
> tells you that this is more of the same partisan charade by the
> Republicans, the same Republicans who are turning to this because they
> didn't find any smoking gun on Benghazi.
>
> *If asked about the mention in the story about violating the rules in the
> foreign affairs manual:*
>
> - Let's remember something, 6 weeks ago the State Department email servers
> went down and they asked that people use their personal accounts.
>
> *If pressed on whether Hillary Clinton gets to play by her own set of
> rules:*
>
> - Well I'll tell you this, she has asked the State Department to turn over
> all 55,000 pages of her emails, and it's still not enough. So I'd say that
> the Republicans try and hold her to a different standard because they are
> afraid of what she has to offer as a candidate.
>
> - She's out there talking to voters, listening to their ideas and talking
> through some of hers.
>
> - It's important not to let these partisan attacks go unresponded to, but
> that's not what she's focused on.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Adrienne Elrod <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> perfecto!
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Karen Finney <
>> [email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>> Talked to Nick who talked to Jen - we've got a good response, I'm in
>>> good shape.  We may just need to tweak  for talkers who are out tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2015, at 10:31 PM, Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> How do we handle guys?
>>>
>>> Karen has CNN new day at 7a and msnbc at 9a. Canceling seems like we're
>>> hiding this late but ideally will have more than just punting to positive
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2015, at 9:51 PM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've got TV in the morning - do we cancel?  If not I'll need a response;
>>> and we've got talkers who also need guidance.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2015, at 9:47 PM, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This cropped up today.  We're on background in it.  See below.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/politics/hillary-clintonwas-asked-about-email-2-years-ago.html?referrer=
>>>
>>> Hillary Clinton Was Asked About Email 2 Years Ago
>>>
>>> WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton
>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/13/us/elections/hillary-clinton.html?inline=nyt-per>
>>> was directly asked by congressional investigators in a December 2012 letter
>>> whether she had used a private email account while serving as secretary of
>>> state, according to letters obtained by The New York Times.
>>>
>>> But Mrs. Clinton did not reply to the letter. And when the State
>>> Department answered in March 2013, nearly two months after she left office,
>>> it ignored the question and provided no response for it.
>>>
>>> The query was posed to Mrs. Clinton in a Dec. 13, 2012, letter from
>>> Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Committee
>>> on Oversight and Government Reform. Mr. Issa was leading an investigation
>>> into how the Obama administration handled its officials’ use of personal
>>> email.
>>>
>>> “Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal email
>>> account to conduct official business?” Mr. Issa wrote to Mrs. Clinton. “If
>>> so, please identify the account used.”
>>>
>>>
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