HILLARY’S AIDES: E-GAD!
Outraged at her slipshod messaging
Newly released e-mails reveal that Hillary Clinton’s closest aides had concerns about her message setup and her refusal to part with her BlackBerry — even taking it to the shower.
Both Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills expressed outrage that a political appointee was contacting Clinton directly on her BlackBerry for help in getting placed in the State Department shortly after Clinton became secretary of state.
“Personally, i think it’s outrageous that staff go straight to her on this stuff,” Abedin wrote Mills on April 3, 2009.
“This is unbelievable,” Mills replied in an e-mail obtained by Citizens United, a conservative group, and shared with The Post, “and she also should not be giving her e-mail to everyone — b/c she will get stuff like this.”
“Its a long story,” Abedin wrote back.
“She’s not giving her new email to people. People who email her old senate address are still being forwarded to new address. Most of her senate staff had access to that address.”
Abedin said she was hoping “Justin” could fix the problem — presumably Justin Cooper, the Bill Clinton aide who is the registered administrator of Hillary’s private home email server.
But Abedin had trouble prying the BlackBerry away from Clinton.
“I need her berry and she takes that thing to every bilat [bilateral meeting], to the shower, so hard to get my hands on that thing,” Abedin told Mills.
“This made me laugh out loud — especially the shower part,” Mills replied.
It’s not clear if Abedin was being literal or was making a point that Clinton took the BlackBerry everywhere.
The e-mail exchange is part of hundreds of new Clinton Foundation and State Department e-mails provided to Citizens United from a publicrecords lawsuit.
In another development Tuesday, the State Department acknowledged it found 30 more Clinton e-mails related to the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack that she should have turned over earlier.
The Department is expected to release them starting in September as part of a public-records lawsuit filed by another conservative group, Judicial Watch.
“This is stuff Mrs. Clinton deleted or withheld and there’s Benghazi material on it,” Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president, told The Post.
Clinton has claimed she turned over printouts of all her work-related e-mails to the State Department — some 30,000 in total. She said she deleted another 32,000 deemed personal.
But during the course of the FBI investigation into classified material on her private server, some 15,000 new work e-mails were discovered.
Another newly released e-mail exchange showed Abedin concerned over cybersecurity when Clinton arrived in Russia in October 2009.