President Obama lied to America in 2015 when he was asked when he heard about Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail system: “The same time everybody else learned it; through news reports,” he said. When in fact, Obama had communicated with his secretary of state 18 times on her homebrew server using an alias. When the Clinton camp heard Obama’s major gaffe, they scrambled to clean up the mess.
It was March 7, 2015, when President Obama told CBS News the bold-faced lie. By that evening, Clinton campaign secretary Josh Schwerin reached out to Jennifer Palmieri and other staffers with the following message: “Jen, you probably have more on this but it looks like POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he saw it in the news.”
As that circulated through the campaign, it reached top-aide Cheryl Mills who communicated with John Podesta: “We need to clean this up — he has emails from her — they do not say state.gov.”
They knew they were in trouble and they had to act fast. As TruthRevolt previously reported, top Clinton advisor Huma Abedin was shocked to receive a copy of an e-mail between her boss and the president during her FBI interview on the matter. She asked, “How is this not classified?” But she quickly asked for a copy because if she had physical proof that Obama knowingly participated in her boss’s indiscretions, Clinton could never be held responsible. And so far, it’s worked out smashingly for all involved.
National Review's Andrew McCarthy summarizes what happened next:
The way they “cleaned this up” was to invoke executive privilege on all of the Obama–Clinton e-mails, as Podesta had originally suggested. The administration did not want to say the words “executive privilege.” Not only is the term suggestive of Watergate-style obstruction; it would have subjected the president to ridicule, given his smarmy March 7 assurance — after falsely denying knowledge about Clinton’s private e-mail — that “the policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my e-mails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived.”
Obama is so “transparent” he’s like a ghost and will not have to answer for his participation in a federal crime until years after he has left office — and that’s IF a grand jury ever opens an investigation:
So instead of formally invoking executive privilege, Obama effectively did it by having the State Department off-handedly announce that the Obama–Clinton e-mails were being withheld from the court-ordered Freedom of Information Act production of Clinton’s e-mails in order “to protect the President’s ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel but [the e-mails] will ultimately be released in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.” That act effectively suppresses Obama’s correspondence for between five and twelve years after he leaves office.
Convenient, no?