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U.S. NEWSSaturday 31 October 2015
New emails show breadth of Hillary Clinton’s network
LISA LERER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
new batch of Hillary Rod-
ham Clinton’s emails re-
leased Friday presented a
glimpse into the breadth of
her personal network — a
Rolodex of powerful ce-
lebrities, CEOs, political ad- On Friday, hours before
visers and politicians that
she’s now tapping for her
presidential campaign.
A political celebrity long
before she became secre-
tary of state in 2009, Clinton It’s hope time. It’s Hillary erence polls has improved
and her team balanced
requests from a long list of
boldface names. They in-
cluded the pop star Lady
Gaga, Burma’s pro-de-
mocracy leader Aung San
Suu Kyi and former Presi-
dent Jimmy Carter.
While Clinton’s private
email address was un-
known to much of official
Washington, at least one
Hollywood celebrity wrote
to her there. Actor Ben Af-
fleck, a longtime Clinton
supporter, urged her in
April 2012 to review a draft
of a report about security
problems in the Democrat-
ic Republic of Congo.
Hours later, Clinton emailed
an aide, “I’d like to respond
to Ben Affleck.” A day lat-
er, she reminded an aide
that she was still waiting for
the aide to draft a reply:
“I haven’t yet received a
draft and would like to re-
spond today.”
The response to Affleck was
censored in the email re-
leased Friday by the State
Department, because it
was a draft version.
In another December 2011
note, civil rights leader
and former presidential
candidate Jesse Jackson
reached out to Clinton’s
staff with a request to talk
to her before his visit to
South Africa, asking how
best to “represent her/Ad-
min thinking on any issues/
In this Dec. 2, 2011, file photo, Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi,
right, and then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak to the press after meetings at
Suu Kyi’s residence in Yangon, Myanmar. scheduled to speak.
opportunities that might
arise.” He was quickly add-
ed to her call list.
the email release, Jack-
son touted Clinton’s can-
didacy before a meeting
of black pastors in Atlanta, vate email setup.
saying: “It’s healing time.
Clinton time.”
Clinton has faced ques-
tions about whether her
unusual email setup, which
involved a private server
located at her New York
home, was sufficient to en-
sure the security of govern- tired of hearing about your
ment information and re-
tention of records.
At least two Senate com-
mittees are still investigat-
ing Clinton’s email ar-
rangement and seeking
the release of correspon-
dence from her top aides.
The FBI is also investigating
the security of Clinton’s pri- the mundane workings of
Yet Clinton’s place in pref-
since the first Democratic
primary debate, in which
her chief primary rival, Ver-
mont independent Sen.
Bernie Sanders, defused
the issue, saying “the Amer-
ican people are sick and
damn emails.”
Roughly half of Clinton’s
30,000 work-related emails
$200,000 toward a sum-
mit at which Clinton was
“She wants it to be won-
Associated Press derful for you,” wrote Clin-
ton aide Melanne Verveer.
are now public, and the In April 2011, Clinton’s aides
State Department’s effort received a request from
to release the rest will linger Jose Villarreal, a former
into next year. Most of the Clinton campaign adviser
correspondence made from Texas, to speak at the
public to date involves launch of a project she
asked him to start involv-
government — schedul- ing U.S. engagement with
ing meetings, organizing Mexico. Clinton told her
secure phone lines and aides to develop a press
booking flights. and social media outreach
A few of the emails hint “to every possible group.”
at the ways Clinton main- Villarreal now serves as her
tained her network of campaign’s treasurer.
campaign donors, even Other emails highlight the
while serving in a position struggles of her daily life
at a distance from elec- at the State Department
toral politics. In a June 2011 — from technological is-
message, an aide informs sues to sleepless nights. She
Clinton that longtime do- requests her password for
nor Susie Buell contributed The New York Times web-
site, searches for books
and apologizes to old law
school friends for being
slow to reply to their emails.
In April 2011, daughter
Chelsea Clinton, using the
email alias Diane Reynolds,
emailed her mother a link
from a Wall Street Jour-
nal story headlined “The
Sleepless Elite: Why Some
People Can Run on Little
Sleep and Get So Much
Done.”
Clinton forwarded it to her
assistant with her common
request, “Pls print.”
A year later, Clinton asked
her top communications
aide if she could get “smi-
ley faces” on her new
BlackBerry. Philippe Reines
responded, “For email, no,
I don’t think so - you need
to type them out manually
like :) for happy, or :-ll if you
want to express anger at
my tardiness.”
He also explained how for
text messaging, typing :)
might “automatically con-
vert it into a symbol. Try
it.”q