Gawker: Huma Abedin, other top Clinton aide also had private email addresses

Brett T. | 8:15 PM on March 03, 2015

There are plenty of good jokes out there about how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likely used her old CompuServe account as her private email address while conducting business (and whatever else) at the State Department. It turns out the operation was a bit more sophisticated than that, with someone reportedly registering the ClintonEmail.com domain the first day of her Senate confirmation hearing.

This is the bigger story, because it demonstrates aforethought and a conscious decision to evade public detection. http://t.co/cBDtpTMl3Q

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 4, 2015

The handy thing about registering a domain is that you can usually add addresses and users at will, which raises some follow-up questions.

Question for the State Dept tomorrow: Did Cheryl Mills, Philippe Reines or Huma Abedin use private email for official business?

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) March 3, 2015

Follow-up question: Did Huma Abedin, Hillary's closest aide, have a State Department address?

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 3, 2015

@HillaryClinton security/legal breach conducting State & political business via her personal email, what was Huma Abedin doing, @nytimes?

— ⚒️(((Todd)))? (@Fiercely_) March 3, 2015

Gawker reports that yes, at least two of Clinton’s top aides — namely, Philippe Reines and Huma Abedin — had personal ClintonEmail.com addresses. (Abedin’s husband Anthony Weiner, as we all know, was more of a SnapChat user.)

If #HillaryClinton used same email account to help get consulting jobs for Huma Abedin & @AnthonyWeiner, it's doubtful she turned them over.

— Ron Brynaert (@ronbryn) March 3, 2015