Subject: Fwd: Media Inquiry
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:56:24 -0400

Frankly, John, I am so fed up with the kind of innuendo included in The Atlantic
story, I thought I would make a point in the media inquiry forwarded below, though
I will not actually write about it publicly.  Brent

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> From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
> Date: August 27, 2015 at 2:54:19 PM EDT
> To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Media Inquiry
> 
> Ms. Bross, this is a media inquiry regarding the story by Yoni Appelbaum in The
> Atlantic suggesting that Vice President Biden might be considering running because
> he could have non-public information about the investigation of the emails in
> the "Clinton email" situation.
> 
> I am a columnist for The Hill newspaper and the New York Observer.  This is a
> fact-checking media inquiry for a potential column I might write, regarding the
> following question:
> 
> While I do not believe the suggestion in Mr. Appelbaum's story is correct, i.e. I do
> not believe the Vice President has non-public information about an ongoing
> investigation, is The Atlantic story suggesting that there is a possibility that
> the Vice President does indeed have such information which I believe, under the
> law, would make him complicit in the illegal disclosure of such information?
> 
> I would appreciate a clarification and in advance, offer my thanks.
> 
> Brent Budowsky
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad