did president obama mislead the public about what he knew about hillary clinton <u+2019>s use of a private email server? that sounds possible based on the latest batch of wikileaks released tuesday. in march 2015 mr. obama said in an interview that he found out about mrs. clinton<u+2019>s use of a private email server <u+201c>the same time everybody else learned it, through the news reports.<u+201d> but we now know that answer alarmed mrs. clinton<u+2019>s aide cheryl mills, who emailed adviser john podesta the same day: <u+201c>we need to clean this up<u+2014>he has emails from her<u+2014>they do not say state.gov.<u+201d> so the president emailed with his secretary of state over an address that wasn<u+2019>t on the official government network. hmmm. <u+201c>the president did not suggest he hadn<u+2019>t traded emails with her,<u+201d> white house press secretary josh earnest said tuesday in an attempt to explain the seeming contradiction. <u+201c>of course the president had possession of secretary clinton<u+2019>s email address but he did not have any knowledge of where her server was located or what sort of arrangements had been made to store her email.<u+201d> we suppose a president wouldn<u+2019>t pay close attention to the email addresses of his cabinet officers, though that lack of state.gov sure was a red flag. the fact that he said he didn<u+2019>t know about the server may also have protected him from an fbi interview. in any case, the cheryl mills email is more evidence of the ethical messes that attend the clinton entourage, as well as the perpetual need to <u+201c>clean this up<u+201d> without coming clean to the american people.
<u+2018>we need to clean this up<u+2019> - wsj
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