it's unclear from the message whether john podesta was being tongue-in-cheek about issues caused by hillary clinton's email server. | ap by kyle cheney 11/06/16 09:30 am est top hillary clinton adviser john podesta privately wondered last year whether clinton's email practices caused ambivalence in her camp about whether to run for president at all. in a hacked email chain posted sunday by wikileaks, podesta suggests that close clinton confidante cheryl mills had been against clinton's decision to mount another presidential run. the disclosure of her private email server may have been the cause, he said. story continued below "at least we now know why cheryl didn't want her to run," podesta wrote in a july 25, 2015, email to neera tanden, head of the center for american progress. when asked for comment, clinton spokesman glen caplin responded, "we are still not authenticating individual emails hacked by the russian government and weaponized by wikileaks." earlier on sunday, clinton's communications director jennifer palmieri warned on twitter that any last-minute bombshells from podesta's hacked emails are likely "fake." it's unclear from the message whether podesta was being tongue-in-cheek about issues caused by clinton's email server, the existence of which had been disclosed four months earlier and had been causing headaches for her nascent campaign. podesta's comment came amid a conversation with tanden about an impending poll that they expected would show clinton rival bernie sanders running competitively with her. "do we actually know who told hillary she could use a private email? and has that person been drawn and quartered?" tanden wrote in a reply that had been previously disclosed. podesta suggested that it may have been mills herself who ok'd the server. by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
podesta suggests cheryl mills was against clinton run because of email server - politico
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