As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton conducted official business using a private e-mail account. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
By Chris Cillizza
Chris Cillizza
Reporter

TO: HDR22@clintonemail.com

FROM: hillarystaffer1@gmail.com

SUBJECT: Things are looking up!

Hey, SoS. I want to start by saying, again, that you should stop using this e-mail account, particularly after this past week. We can easily get Hoteham back to do the switchover.

So, we’ve had better weeks, right? In retrospect, we probably shouldn’t have let you circumvent the federal government’s e-mail system when you were the country’s top diplomat. Whoops!

Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail address that she used while secretary of state reinforces everything people don’t like about her, argues The Post’s Chris Cillizza, and is very dangerous to her presidential ambitions. (The Washington Post)

But that’s behind us. Here’s what we have coming up! A State Department review of whether you violated agency policy with the whole only-using-your-private-e-mail-address thing. Subpoenas from the House Benghazi committee to find out more about, well, the e-mail thingy again. And we need to decide whether we want to elaborate on your Twitter statement on this media-driven “controversy.” (For what it’s worth, I think you covered everything you needed to in those 130 characters.)

Of course, we can’t forget about that little announcement (wink, wink) coming in April, right? And before you ask, yes, the Republican candidates — ugh! — are going to keep bringing up the e-mail imbroglio between now and 2016. I mean, Jeb Bush is already calling on you to release all of the unclassified e-mails you sent while you were at State and telling us “transparency matters.” Um, yeah, didn’t he see your tweet?

Oh, one other thing: That little toad Chris Cillizza told me that you won his worst week in Washington “award.” So, congrats or something.

(Sent from my iPhone. Ignore typos.)

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