While some might see the “hours” Reines spent getting the formatting for the chart just right as a waste of time, what he produced is “the key to the relationships the secretary has with her close aides.” Is the Ambassador present tolerable? If so, then yes, the “Ambo” can go in the limo. A flowchart compiled by Clinton’s communications aide, Philippe Reines, about who can ride with Clinton in her limo.The email was released in response to a FOIA lawsuit brought by Vice News’s Jason Leopold, and was notably not released to Bauer in response to his own FOIA request for records about how the State Department handled his imprisonment. Blumenthal notes, “He was not acting as a journalist at the time, though is a journalist-and a left wing kid”. These include:Īn August 3, 2009, email from Clinton’s unofficial adviser Sidney Blumenthal containing information “that might possibly be helpful” if US journalist Shane Bauer was charged as a spy after his arrest for inadvertently crossing an unmarked border between Iraq and Iran during a hike. Roughly 82 percent of 54,000 pages of email have been released, although many are redacted with FOIA’s discretionary exemption 5 and personal privacy exemption 6. Some interesting - both amusing and substantive - documents have made their way to the public despite agency efforts to retroactively classify many of them. While Clinton, her camp, and the State Department’s FOIA office all share blame for her personal email use, the larger – and more complicated – problems of poor, outdated email management and government-wide overclassification have been buried by frenzied reporting on whether or not any of Clinton’s emails were classified. Reports have paid particular attention to whether or not she mishandled classified information, speculation that has been buoyed by the retroactive classification of emails that she sent or received over her personal account. Hillary Clinton’s sole use of personal email to conduct official business as secretary of state has been the subject of oftentimes-intense debate on the campaign trail.

Hillary Clinton with the Blackberry the State Department did not give her.

Clinton redacted email