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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Emails appear to show how key Clinton aide manipulated media coverage

A newly released email exchange from 2009 shows how a key Hillary Clinton aide strong-armed a prominent political reporter into glowing coverage of the then-secretary of state.

The email chain, released to Gawker in response to a Freedom of Information Request, is between longtime Clinton loyalist Philippe Reines and Atlantic reporter Marc Ambinder. Ambinder starts off the correspondence by asking for an advance copy of a speech on the Obama administration’s policies Clinton was due to give to the Council on Foreign Relations.

Reines obliges on three conditions:

1) You in your own voice describe them as “muscular”

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Muscular. Gotta love it.