The fax machine v Hillary Clinton
[Clinton aide] Huma Abedin: “Can you hang up the fax line, they will call again and try fax”
Clinton: “I thought it was supposed to be off hook to work?”
Abedin: “Yes but hang up one more time. So they can reestablish the line.”
Clinton: “I did.”
Abedin: “Just pick up phone and hang it up. And leave it hung up.”
Clinton: “I’ve done it twice now.”
The right coat for Kabul
A 2009 email titled “Love the Coat” from Philip Crowley, assistant secretary for public affairs at the state department, congratulated Clinton’s sartorial judgement.
Crowley: “Your arrival in Kabul landed the front page picture in the NYT and sparked an online poll in Huff Post about your coat. At last check, its favorability rating was 77 percent. Safe travels back.”
Clinton: “Thx! I bought the coat in Kabul in 03 and thought it should get a chance to go home for a visit! See you tomorrow.”
Very dry. #ClintonEmails pic.twitter.com/IyWMuIJFfa
— Rick Morton (@SquigglyRick) July 1, 2015
Who’s been ‘Twittering’?
[Clinton aide] Cheryl Mills: “We should not be twittering in the Secretary’s name since she is not the person actually twittering. There is a reference in Newsweek to her twittering and says: Hillary Clinton Style: Dry info and offers 4,788 followers. Can you advise who is twittering her name and how we can address?”
Thirsty work
5 emails in, favourite so far just has this in subject line and nothing else: "Pls call Sarah and ask her if she can get me some iced tea"
— Dan Roberts (@RobertsDan) July 1, 2015
Decoding diplomatic jargon
[Clinton aide] Jake Sullivan: “I’m being told - and still trying to verify - that as of last week, we’ve succumbed to the Europeans’ preferred term. That there was interagency discussion of this, and that going forward, we will join the rest of the world in calling the P5+1 the E3+3.”
Clinton: “What does it mean? What is the E and who are the three?”
Sullivan: “E is Europe. E3 is UK, France, and Germany. +3 is US, China, Russia So it’s the same 6 as the P5+1, just a different name.”
Clinton: “I already feel safer.”
Sullivan: “And I feel ashamed that I had to subject you to this.”
Apples for ‘personal use’
In a message titled “Apples” to aide Lauren Jiloty, Clinton wrote: “Will we receive them this Fall? How can I buy some for personal use?”
The White House stands up Hillary Clinton
Clinton: “I arrived for the 10:15 mtg and was told there was no mtg. Matt said they had ‘released’ the time. This is the second time this has happened. What’s up???”
Clinton frets that Kissinger saw Nixon every day when Sec of State while she sees Obama only weekly "Do you see this as a problem?" she asks
— Dan Roberts (@RobertsDan) July 1, 2015
A surreal message from senator Barbara Mikulski
“Am so glad to hear frm you//// knew this was painful combined with logistics of being a woman--know. How streddful this must be----the other night the. Senate. Women had dinner anyway---all sent good words. And encouragement. To a woman theyb all said. Oh my imagine just getting dressed and the. Hair thing. Get your therapy. Get better. The senate is slogging along----- health care is starting to sag. --- some days it feels like we are doing the public option off backof envelope. Call when you can. X.”
