Subject: Re: STATEMENT FOR YOUR APPROVAL
From: Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 16:26:52 -0500

he is comfortabel with that.

but let's hold that as last change and discuss for 5 minutes right before
it goes

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]> wrote:

> on with david now re that
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> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 4:22 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
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>> Just to you. Should we change team to counsel?
>>
>> JP
>> --Sent from my iPad--
>> [email-masked]
>> For scheduling: [email-masked]
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> *From:* Philippe Reines <[email-masked]>
>> *Date:* March 7, 2015 at 3:44:06 PM EST
>> *To:* H <[email-masked]>
>> *Cc:* CDM <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <
>> [email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Huma
>> Abedin <[email-masked]>, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>
>> *Subject:* *STATEMENT FOR YOUR APPROVAL*
>>
>>  I have asked the State Department to make public the nearly 55,000
>> pages of my government-related emails that we gave to the Department last
>> year. I do hope that when the Department makes my emails available to the
>> public, what's in them will answer questions that have been raised and show
>> how hard everyone at the Department of State was working for this country.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have always preferred in-person or telephone conversations, which are
>> more collaborative and personal, but over time I have learned that email is
>> sometimes an efficient way to communicate quickly, or even at all, and in
>> the Senate I began to use email regularly.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I got to work as Secretary of State, I wanted the simplicity of
>> using one device. I opted to use my personal email account; it enabled me
>> to reach people quickly and keep in regular touch with my family and
>> friends more easily, given my travel schedule.  My own usage was widely
>> known, as my address was visible on every email I sent.  To address
>> requirements to keep records of my work emails, it was my practice to email
>> government employees at their government email address.  That way, they
>> would be captured and preserved in the Department's system.
>>
>>
>>
>> Looking back, it would have been better if I had used a state.gov
>> account and carried two devices instead of opting for the convenience of
>> one Blackberry with one account.
>>
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>>
>> Late October 2014, 21 months after I left office, I received a request
>> from the Department for copies of my work-related emails.  My team reviewed
>> my entire email account and identified nearly 55,000 pages of emails that
>> were in any related to work.  In early December, they were all provided to
>> the State Department, and it is these emails that I have asked the
>> Department to make available to the public.  While I provided hard copies
>> of my work email, nearly all of them were available on the state.gov
>> system.  That is why my emails were provided to Congress last summer in
>> response to Congressional requests, long before the hard copies were
>> requested by the Department.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know there have been reasonable questions about all of this, along with
>> more than a little confusion, so I am also sharing a detailed set of
>> answers with the best information we could gather in one place.
>>
>>
>>
>> Finally, let me say again that when all is said and done and everyone is
>> able to read the emails, I want the public to see the great work we did at
>> State that I am so proud of.
>>
>>
>>  ###
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