Subject: Re: Hillary Clinton Was Asked About Email 2 Years Ago - NYTimes.com
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>, Heather Samuelson <[email-masked]>, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>, hrcrapid <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:43:52 -0400
List-Id: <hrcrapid.googlegroups.com>

Holding unless asked and will run by group if we feel like we need to send
to anyone before doing so

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:21 PM, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>
wrote:

Makes sense. And to be clear the below is just for surrogates.  We're not
responding at the moment.  No one seems to be biting on this yet.

On Apr 14, 2015, at 10:17 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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