NYTimes: State Department lawyers never advised Hillary to stop using personal email accounts.

[pnwmom]

She wasn't doing anything in secret, but openly. And no one in the Obama administration objected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/us/politics/when-hillary-clinton-joined-obama-administration-friction-was-over-staff-not-email.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

By the time she was sworn in as secretary, her closest aides, who came with her to Foggy Bottom, knew that she communicated only through a private email address. The practice was not a secret, according to a person with direct knowledge of the inner workings of State Department under Mrs. Clinton, and no one thought it necessary that she switch to an official government address, which would have caused her email to be preserved under the 2009 rules and regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration. Neither career foreign service officers nor State Department lawyers suggested that Mrs. Clinton use a department email address, the person said.

But Mrs. Clinton’s use of a clintonemail.com address, which shielded those emails from public records requests, is now giving ammunition to critics eager to diminish her experience as a globe-trotting diplomat, which allies portray as her strongest credential in seeking the Democratic nomination for president.

Moreover, Mrs. Clinton’s relationship with the Obama White House, which she and her aides worked hard to improve and nurture, once again seems strained. Some of her allies have grumbled that the president’s aides could have done more to support her — perhaps, one said, by pointing out that the president himself and Mrs. Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, both use private accounts in addition to their government email addresses.

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[MADem]

1. NYT did what they were told to do--take the air out of any negative coverage of "BIBI IN DC" with

a CANARD ABOUT CLINTON LALAPALOOZA!!!!!!!

Boy oh boy, didn't a lot of useful tools eat that up with a spoon!

And now that Bibi is on his merry way, the NYT is pretending that they're fixing the problem....when they ARE the problem.

The aspens are turning at the Grey Lady....