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By JAKE LAHUT 06/23/2017 06:27 PM EDT
Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton's former communications director, said on Friday that the Obama administration "made the best decisions they could" when deciding when to publicly disclose evidence that Russian officials tried to interfere with the 2016 election.
Palmieri's comments came after the release of an investigation by The Washington Post revealed how former President Barack Obama and his aides wrestled with when to release the highly sensitive intelligence, because they feared being accused of trying to influence the election themselves.
"And you know, I know that the Obama White House is in a very difficult situation, and they made the best decisions they could," Palmieri, who previously served as Obama's White House communications director, said on MSNBC. "We call those 51-49 decisions. I'm sure you experienced them," she said to host Nicolle Wallace, who served as a communications director for the George W. Bush White House. "We called them 'crummy and crummier,'" Wallace joked.
Palmieri credited the White House's reluctance as ultimately being in the national interest. "I think they did it in the best interest of the country," Palmieri said, adding that Democrats should have sounded a greater alarm at the hacks and that the news media should have covered the interference more thoroughly.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/23/jennifer-palmieri-obama-russia-hacking-decisions-239913
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)spanone
(135,627 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Is there any question that Reupublicans would have used this information against Hillary if the situation were reversed?
BumRushDaShow
(127,252 posts)or the state legislatures and governorships, or the media, there's not much that can be done. You have to rebuild from the bottom up at the STATE level and claw back that power.
BannonsLiver
(16,161 posts)that narrative would have been set immediately by the media. The tone of the coverage at the time was 100 percent horse race narrative. Russia at that time would have been viewed only in the context of how Obama was trying to use it for political advantage before a critical election, the horse race. It likely would have made things worse for Clinton, not better.
brush
(53,467 posts)The administration could've, as is this one now, blasted the leakers.
If we ever get the chance again we gotta stop being the "agonizing-over-not-wanting-to-appear-as-if-trying-to-influence-the-election-good-guys" and use our power to help Dems win and in doing so, save the country.
We gotta get tougher.
The country is always better off with a Democrat in the White House.
Let's always own that sentiment and act on it.