2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Newly released FBI documents shows Petraeus disclosures less damaging than Clinton emails [View all]amandabeech
(9,893 posts)Since both those situations are within the sole purview of his own justice dept., it's hard to imagine.
That Obama may have sent e-mail to her private server is now a rumor, so I put it in a hypothetical. But really, is it so hard to believe that none of Obama nor his immediate advisers never sent an e-mail directly to Clinton? She had no other e-mail address. Perhaps they sent e-mail only to her aides, or hand delivered any written communication. Then there are texts from the Presidents much loved Blackberry. Clinton never carried a secure Blackberry.
The only methods any governmental persons, including the President, the Veep, DOD, etc., to contact Clinton directly and securely would be land line, hand delivery of documents by a secure individual (probably military) or face to face meeting. Her Blackberry and her server were secure as far as we know. The highest level information was probably above the security clearances of Hillary's top aides. The only other thing I can think of would be an ultra secure fax that only Hillary could access. The lack of secure communication seems to put Hillary out of the loop or required POTUS, the Veep and others to risk nonsecure communication. It is really a nasty problem.