Top Clinton Aide Secretly Wrote Item for Politico Playbook

[dorkzilla]

Gawker has received the latest round of emails between reporters and Philippe Reines, the longtime Hillary Clinton confidante, former State Department spokesperson, and frequent pen pal of Mike Allen. This month’s batch contains yet another friendly email exchange between Reines and Allen whose contents belie Allen’s claim as an adversarial journalist. We have previously reported that Allen once promised to only ask pre-approved questions in an interview with Chelsea Clinton and assured staff members of a senior Democratic lawmaker on Capitol Hill that he would conduct a “no-surprises” interview with their boss. The following email exchange demonstrates the same tendency. In it, Allen permits Reines, then serving under Clinton at State, to actually ghost-write a Politico Playbook item about the State Department.

http://gawker.com/emails-top-clinton-aide-secretly-wrote-item-for-mike-a-1757323650

The wheels on the bus fall off and off!!!!

[CharlotteVale]

1. Pshaw, what's a little thing like ethics!

[HooptieWagon]

2. It's not like Hillary used State Dept funds to buy herself fake facebook 'likes'...

Oh wait...she did.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Ethics, schmethics!

Who needs 'em?! Certainly not Politico or HRH.

The corruption runs deep and wide.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[SoapBox]

4. More ugh.

The whole mess of them are disgusting.

Why the fuck are these people so, well, rotten and corrupt.

[dorkzilla]

5. Isn’t it fascinating how many stories are coming out suddenly

More to come, I should think.

[Wilms]

6. ^