State Dept. Tipped Clinton Campaign Off About NYT Reporter Working Email Story

The State Department tipped the Hillary Clinton campaign off last year that a New York Times reporter was asking questions about Clinton’s emails.

The revelation undermines the State Department’s claims that it has not worked to help Clinton during the ongoing email scandal.

“State just called to tell me that Mike Schmidt seems to have what appear to be summaries of some of the exchanges in the 300 emails the committee has,” Nick Merrill wrote in a March 14, 2015 email.

Schmidt is the Times reporter who broke the news that Clinton used a private email account as secretary of state. The article was published on March 2, 2015. Clinton had turned more than 50,000 emails over to the State Department in Dec. 2014. The State Department then provided around 300 emails to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which was chaired by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy.

The emails show that Clinton’s team suspected Gowdy of leaking contents of Clinton’s emails to Schmidt.

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Re: NYT | Leaked BG Emails


From:jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com
To: jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com, robbymook2015@gmail.com
Date: 2015-03-14 17:10
Subject: Re: NYT | Leaked BG Emails






Plus Robby

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 14, 2015, at 3:04 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is no bueno. This is some kind of bull****. Adding John to this chain. If Gowdy is doing selective leaks, we are in very different kind of warfare.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Nick Merrill <nmerrill@hrcoffice.combl> wrote:
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>> State just called to tell me that Mike Schmidt seems to have what appear to be summaries of some of the exchanges in the 300 emails the committee has. He shared 2 anecdotes with State, one was an exchange that HRC had with Jake about some of the media stories following the attacks, the other an exchange that HRC had with CDM and Huma on non-state.gov accounts, but that was later forwarded to a state.gov account.
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>> Again, it appears that he does not have the email but that someone, likely from the committee, is slipping him cherry-picked characterizations of the exchanges. I haven’t heard directly from Schmidt yet but will circle back when I do.
>>
>> Nick

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Moot said:

So what? :shrug:

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sanman said:

Despite the State Dept's claim that it had nothing to do with helping Hillary deal with the FBI investigation, Wikileaks has provided evidence to the contrary, in the form of a Clinton Team email saying they'd just been tipped off by the State Dept that someone was tipping of the NYT about the contents of Hillary's emails.

State Dept. Tipped Clinton Campaign Off About NYT Reporter | The Daily Caller

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KevinKohler said:

Do you think anyone tipped Trump off about the impending release of his 90s vid about vagina grabbing?

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KevinKohler said:

Do you think anyone tipped Trump off about the impending release of his 90s vid about vagina grabbing?

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year2late said:

He was sent the cat scan results but failed to understand the implications.:lamo

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