BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Some of Hillary Clinton’s top advisers were in the dark about the scope and depth of her controversial email system as the scandal broke in March 2015, according to emails released by WikiLeaks. One close ally, Center for American Progress leader Neera Tanden, was still fuming months later, pressing now-Campaign Chairman John Podesta on who gave Clinton permission to use the system.
“Do we actually know who told Hillary she could use a private email? And has that person been drawn and quartered?” Tanden wrote in July. “Like whole thing is f—ing insane.”
Podesta responded to Tanden’s email by saying, “When I gave Hillary permission to set up the private server, it was ‘tongue-in-cheek’, and I had no idea she was stupid enough to actually do it.”