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Five days after the release of a highly critical State Department inspector general’s report on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, top adviser John Podesta put out a 600-word memo to Democratic donors over the weekend saying once again that Clinton knows her use of a personal email server was a “mistake.”
“Since last year, Secretary Clinton has said her use of a personal email server was a mistake. And while there have been ongoing reviews of this matter, the completion of the Inspector General’s examination gets us one step closer to resolving this. … What she thought would be a convenient way to communicate with family, friends and colleagues – by using one email account for both her work related and personal emails – has turned out to be anything but convenient. If she could go back, she’d do it differently.”
What’s interesting is that Clinton herself long ago said her private email setup was a mistake. That Podesta needs to make the point again is a pretty good indication that the campaign sees the issue as a lingering problem.
The Podesta memo is also a reversal from last week when Clinton’s spokesperson slammed the State Department report.
It also suggests that whatever the Clinton team is seeing in its own internal polling and hearing from donors is probably not good news. Many Democrats — and probably many more independents — are still troubled by the issue.
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