Podesta Told Clinton Team To ‘Dump’ Emails After Use Of Private Server Emerged

Hillary Clinton and John Podesta

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman directed her former chief of staff to “dump all those emails” the same day a bombshell report revealed Clinton’s use of a private computer server while US secretary of state, WikiLeaks revealed on Tuesday.

John Podesta sent the message to Cheryl Mills the evening of March 2, 2015, hours after the New York Times reported that Clinton may have violated federal records requirements by using the server, according to the latest batch of Podesta’s hacked emails.

“Not to sound like Lanny, but we are going to have to dump all those emails so better to do so sooner than later,” Podesta told Mills.

Mills responded: “Think you just got your new nick name.”

It’s unclear what Podesta meant by using the term “dump.” The “Lanny” mention is an apparent reference to lawyer Lanny Davis, who served as special counsel to then-President Bill Clinton.

In December 2014, Clinton — now the Democratic presidential nominee — turned over about 55,000 pages of work-related email to the State Department, but that fact wasn’t revealed until the Times reported on her use of the private server. Mills coordinated the release of work emails to the State Department.

Cheryl Mills

On March 10, 2015 — a week after the Podesta-Mills exchange — Clinton addressed the email scandal, and announced she had deleted about 30,000 personal emails.

The Clinton campaign has declined to comment on specific Wikileaks emails or authenticate hacked documents, which US intelligence agencies attribute to the Russian government.

But Democratic allies say Podesta, who was blindsided by the email controversy, was advocating for transparency.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee Democrats point to Clinton tweeting on March 4, 2015 calling on the State Department to release her 55,000 pages of work files. “I want the public to see my email,” she wrote two days after the Podesta message.

At the time, Davis was also calling for Clinton to get out all the facts about her email. Another Wikileaks email out shows Team Clinton even getting frustrated with Davis’ public advocacy for transparency.

“We gotta zap Lanny out of our universe,” campaign manager Robby Mook wrote Podesta March 8, 2015. “Can’t believe he committed her to a private review of her hard drive on TV.”

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