Clinton campaign plotted to withhold Obama emails

Judicial Watch: Clinton endangered US and now lying about it

Hillary Clinton's campaign considered asking the White House to withhold any of her emails to or from President Obama on the same day Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, issued a subpoena for her records.
The revelation emerged in the seventh batch of emails obtained illegally from the inbox of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chair, and published Friday by WikiLeaks.
"Think we should hold emails to and from potus [sic]?" Podesta wrote to Cheryl Mills, Clinton's former chief of staff, on March 4, 2015.
"That's the heart of his exec privilege," Podesta said. "We could get them to ask for that. They may not care, but I seems [sic] like they will."
Gowdy issued a subpoena for Clinton's Libya-related record on that same day.
Notes from the Fbi's closed investigative file, which were made public by the bureau last month, showed Obama had used a pseudonym when communicating with Clinton on her private server.
Huma Abedin, Clinton's former deputy chief of staff, expressed shock when she was shown copies of emails between Obama and Clinton during her Fbi interview. To date, emails between Clinton and Obama have not been made public.
In July, the White House exerted executive privilege over an undisclosed number of Benghazi-related documents and refused to provide them to Gowdy's committee. The move came four months after Clinton's campaign weighed whether to ask the White House to pursue such a strategy.