Update:
In a related development, “Obama aides knew of private address,” CNN reports:
President Barack Obama’s top aides, including David Axelrod, communicated with Hillary Clinton at her private email address while she was secretary of state, new records show.
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Original Post:
After the State Department released a trove of additional Hillary Clinton e-mail messages, covering “a range of everyday events as well as matters like the war in Afghanistan, women’s issues and the dispute between Turkey and Armenia in 2009,” the New York Times’ “First Draft” reports that, upon initial review, “the messages contain no incriminating evidence that her opponents could use as large-scale attacks.”
The Times warns, however, that
…there will almost certainly be renewed focus on her reliance on Mr. Blumenthal, whom her aides expressed concern about in one email as having “outed himself ” for engaging with the State Department. There are also plenty of smaller bits of interest that offer insight and for which she could face some criticism.
For example, the Times notes that the emails show Mrs. Clinton needed advice on how to use a fax machine, “which will almost certainly be recycled by critics who seek to make her look out of touch.”
And notes:
She also traded emails with two Obama administration officials on the private email address, though White House aides have insisted they didn’t know she had been using a private email server for State Department business. There is nothing in the exchanges so far to indicate they did.
In a previous article on the new release, the Times observed:
Many of the messages concern simple logistics and scheduling, with Mrs. Clinton confirming meetings at the White House or seeking to rearrange her calendar to accommodate various demands. Others are messages from aides or other administration officials praising her public performances or checking to see if she minded her email address being given out.
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Unlike previous batches of emails released since Mrs. Clinton turned over messages to the State Department, these did not concern the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that has been the subject of a Republican-led congressional inquiry…
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