The FBI has revealed that President Obama used a pseudonym in his communications with Hillary Clinton over her private e-mail server and in doing so, likely sent classified information through an insecure channel knowingly. His involvement also contradicts his previous statements that he knew nothing about her operating communications from her basement. 

During her FBI interview on the scandal, Clinton advisor and confidant Huma Abedin was handed a copy of an e-mail and told it was sent by one of Obama’s aliases. She responded in amazement, according to the notes, saying, “How is this not classified?” She then asked for a copy of the e-mail, because if she had physical proof that Obama knowingly participated in her boss’s indiscretions, Clinton could never be held responsible.

National Review’s Andrew McCarthy writes:

Abedin knew an insurance policy when she saw one. If Obama himself had been e-mailing over a non-government, non-secure system, then everyone else who had been doing it had a get-out-of-jail-free card…

Indeed, imagine what would have happened had Clinton been indicted. The White House would have attempted to maintain the secrecy of the Obama-Clinton e-mails (under Obama’s invocation of a bogus “presidential communications” privilege), but Clinton’s defense lawyers would have demanded the disclosure of the e-mails in order to show that Obama had engaged in the same misconduct, yet only she, not he, was being prosecuted. And as most experienced criminal-law lawyers understand (especially if they’ve read a little Supreme Court case known as United States v. Nixon), it is an argument that Clinton’s lawyers would have won.

Back in February, the State Department refused to release 18 e-mails sent between the president and Mrs. Clinton. Their excuse? Releasing them would compromise “the president’s ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel” from top government officials.” Translation: this was highly confidential communications sent over a home-brew server.

Let’s look back even further to last year, when a CBS News reporter asked the president when he knew of Clinton’s private e-mail system. He said, “The same time everybody else learned it through news reports.”

He doubled down at that time:

"The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived. I’m glad that Hillary's instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed."

But it appears as if he did know, giving Clinton and Abedin the gift of peace of mind against any threat of prosecution.