Afraid a Republican president would undo his Executive Orders, Barack Obama is ordering the FBI to hide potentially illegal Hillary Clinton emails until after the 2016 election.
The move could hide emails showing Clinton and Obama deliberately neglected to provide proper security to the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya prior to a terrorist attack that killed four Americans.
It could also hide emails showing Clinton and Obama exchanged classified materials on an unsecured, illegal, private server.
“President Barack Obama found himself drawn into Hillary Clinton’s email controversy Friday as the White House acknowledged the State Department is withholding a set of messages Obama and Clinton exchanged during her four years as secretary of state,” POLITICO reports.
Obama is using a legal loophole to hide the emails.
“As the State Department made public a new batch of more than 7,200 pages of Clinton’s emails, officials stressed that the White House was not asserting executive privilege over the Obama-Clinton exchanges but insisting that they be treated as presidential records, which are normally not available to the public until between five and 12 years after a president leaves office,” POLITICO reports.
“A White House official declined to say whether any of the Obama-Clinton emails related to Libya. If so, the White House’s position could cause an executive privilege clash with Congress, since the House Benghazi Committee subpoenaed all Clinton emails related to Benghazi in March of this year.”
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