Clinton aide in leaked email: Time to ‘get Huma the hell out of there’
A top Hillary Clinton aide emailed about wanting to “bust in that house and get Huma [Abedin] the hell out of there” around the time when Abedin’s husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), was in the midst of a sexting scandal in 2011, newly leaked emails reveal.
{mosads}Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote the email to campaign chairman John Podesta and adviser Neera Tanden in June 2011, a day before Weiner stepped down from Congress, The Associated Press reported Friday.
The email’s subject line was “time to get the hazmat suits.” The messages were released Thursday by WikiLeaks, who has been releasing what it claims is Podesta’s hacked emails.
FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers last week that it discovered new emails pertinent to the agency’s investigation into Clinton’s potential mishandling of classified information. The messages were found during the FBI’s investigation into Weiner, according to media reports.
The email batch released by WikiLeaks also revealed that Palmieri had a negative attitude toward Comey.
In an email sent in October 2015, Palmieri labeled Comey “a bad choice” and forwarded an article about Comey claiming that law enforcement officers were becoming less aggressive as a result of the “Ferguson effect.”
“Get a big fat ‘I told you so’ on Comey being a bad choice,” Palmieri wrote in an email to Podesta and who appears to be the former White House spokesman Eric Schultz, according to the report.
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