02:41 GMT +321 October 2018

Democratic US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Lake Worth, Florida, US October 26, 2016.

Aides Urged Clinton to Ignore Benghazi, Email Rows at 2015 DNC Meeting

© REUTERS / Carlos Barria

19:46 01.11.2016(updated 20:12 01.11.2016) Get short URL

1513

Hillary Clinton’s advisers told the would-be Democratic presidential nominee she must omit Benghazi and email controversies from her remarks at the August 2015 party meeting, a WikiLeaks publication revealed Tuesday.

US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a Halloween mask while joking with her staff on her campaign plane in Erlanger, Kentucky, US October 31, 2016.

© REUTERS / Brian Snyder

#Podesta25: 'Crony-Capitalist' Clinton in 'Crushing' Email Leak

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The email exchange dated August 27, 2015 showed her speechwriter Megan Rooney and communications adviser Mandy Grunwald agree that bringing up these topics would "feed the wrong press narrative" and put her on the defensive.

"I will tell her that we advise her to NOT discuss Benghazi or emails," Rooney wrote in an email entitled "HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] is asking…"

The email was part of the 25th batch of WikiLeaks publications of messages from the hacked account of Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, and revealed her team’s preparations for the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) meeting on August 28, 2015.

Clinton has been in the public spotlight for her handling of the 2012 attack on the US outposts in Libya’s Benghazi during her tenure as the US secretary of state. It also emerged in March 2015 that she had been using a private server and email account for official business during that time.

Related:: US Justice Dept. Official in Email Case Has Ties to Clinton Campaign Chairman

: Clinton’s Team Slams FBI Director for 'Break in Protocol' Over Email Scandal

: WikiLeaks Releases 25th Batch of Clinton Campaign Chair's Leaked Emails

Tags:

emails, Hillary Clinton, United States

Community standardsDiscussion

Comment via FacebookComment via Sputnik

Сomment
Thank you! Your comment will be reviewed by the moderator for compliance with the Rules
Add more

Сomment

Community standards

The fact of registration and authorization of users on Sputnik websites via users’ account or accounts on social networks indicates acceptance of these rules.

Users are obliged abide by national and international laws. Users are obliged to speak respectfully to the other participants in the discussion, readers and individuals referenced in the posts.

The websites’ administration has the right to delete comments made in languages other than the language of the majority of the websites’ content.

In all language versions of the sputniknews.com websites any comments posted can be edited.

A user comment will be deleted if it:

does not correspond with the subject of the post;
promotes hatred and discrimination on racial, ethnic, sexual, religious or social basis or violates the rights of minorities;
violates the rights of minors, causing them harm in any form, including moral damage;
contains ideas of extremist nature or calls for other illegal activities;
contains insults, threats to other users, individuals or specific organizations, denigrates dignity or undermines business reputations;
contains insults or messages expressing disrespect to Sputnik;
violates privacy, distributes personal data of third parties without their consent or violates privacy of correspondence;
describes or references scenes of violence, cruelty to animals;
contains information about methods of suicide, incites to commit suicide;
pursues commercial objectives, contains improper advertising, unlawful political advertisement or links to other online resources containing such information;
promotes products or services of third parties without proper authorization;
contains offensive language or profanity and its derivatives, as well as hints of the use of lexical items falling within this definition;
contains spam, advertises spamming, mass mailing services and promotes get-rich-quick schemes;
promotes the use of narcotic / psychotropic substances, provides information on their production and use;
contains links to viruses and malicious software;
is part of an organized action involving large volumes of comments with identical or similar content ("flash mob");
“floods” the discussion thread with a large number of incoherent or irrelevant messages;
violates etiquette, exhibiting any form of aggressive, humiliating or abusive behavior ("trolling");
doesn’t follow standard rules of the English language, for example, is typed fully or mostly in capital letters or isn’t broken down into sentences.

The administration has the right to block a user’s access to the page or delete a user’s account without notice if the user is in violation of these rules or if behavior indicating said violation is detected.

Users can initiate the recovery of their account / unlock access by contacting the moderators at moderator@sputniknews.com

The letter must contain:

Subject - the restoration of account / unlock access
User ID
An explanation of the actions which were in violation of the rules above and resulted in the lock.

If the moderators deem it possible to restore the account / unlock access, it will be done.

In the case of repeated violations of the rules above resulting in a second block of a user’s account, access cannot be restored.

To contact the team of moderators, write to moderator@sputniknews.com