Former State Dept. Official: Every Obama Official ‘Uses Their Gmail Account’
Michael Bastasch | The Daily Caller
Oct 31, 2016
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A former top Department of State official who worked under Hillary Clinton told her presidential campaign chair every White House staffer and top cabinet official uses a personal email account.

“Btw you know as well as I every god damn cabinet officer and WH staff uses [their] gmail account!” Tom Nides, the former deputy secretary of state for management and resources, wrote to John Podesta in a March 2015 email.

Nides, who served in the State Department from 2011 to 2013 while Clinton was secretary of state, wrote to Podesta using his Gmail account, and suggested that he used one while working in the Obama administration.

Podesta’s Gmail account, which he used to communicate with White House staffers, got hacked, revealing Nides’ candid email to the Clinton campaign chairman.

Reports have been circulating for years about top Obama administration officials using “secret” email accounts to conduct official business and possibly avoid Freedom of Information Act requests.