Hillary Aide Tattled on Colleagues

Published September 1, 2015 10:45am ET



The State Department released another tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server Monday evening. While messages between Clinton and other State and administration officials concerning the most interesting and consequential subjects (like the Benghazi attacks) were heavily redacted, others continued to be revealing about how Clinton’s State Department operated.

One characteristic has been the obsequiousness of Clinton’s staff toward their boss, while another has been the the eagerness to engage in petty office politics. An email released Monday captured both of these qualities. On May 27, 2010, Philippe Reines, a senior advisor to Clinton involved primarily with communications, emailed Clinton’s private email address ([email protected]), copying fellow aides Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan. The subject line was “Women.”

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