Subject: Re: We haven't had a good war with NYT in awhile
From: Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
To: Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
Cc: Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 13:43:50 -0500

Two things are true:

Heather talked to I believe Alex gerlach at State, who said they were
hearing only one email had so far been ruled out as Top Secret.

Separately, two reporters who were trying to confirm Gerstein's report with
ODNI reported back to us that they were hearing the same.

The rumor was not that ODNI had completed the review and determined only
one was not TS and the other was, but rather that they had only reached a
definitive conclusion on the one (we think the North Korea email that
supposedly relied on satellite imagery) and were still deciding on the
other.

Separately, gerstein is still confident the review is indeed done, and the
emails are no longer being handled as TS materials, and the statement was
only issued last night because ODNI is trying to avoid embarrassing the IG
by acting like they have overruled them.
On Nov 7, 2015 1:34 PM, "Jennifer Palmieri" <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> Sorry. I am misremembering.  One of our team heard that rumor from the
> state department.  Think it was heather.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 7, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> sad
>
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> In fact Brian has heard rumors that not only will ODNI not confirm but
>> that they only think one email is not top secret so this may be not such a
>> great story after all.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2015, at 11:49 AM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> Ok let's save the ammunition for the day they confirm the story and put
>> it on A 37 in the back of the local nyc section given that it involves a
>> local resident.
>>
>> On Saturday, November 7, 2015, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> They tried but could not confirm the politico story and then by day's
>>> end yesterday, ODNI issued a statement saying the review was not done yet
>>> On Nov 7, 2015 11:41 AM, "John Podesta" <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> did I miss something or did they completely ignore the clapper matter
>>>> and instead focus on another Grassley lead of an innocuous Teneo letter? I
>>>> feel like a another public editor screed should be in the offing.
>>>
>>>
>