The White House on Monday said that President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had e-mailed each other during Clinton’s tenure in the State Department, drilling down on the point that their correspondence has been archived in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.
"The president, as I think many people expected, did over the course of his first several years in office trade e-mails with his secretary of state,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during Monday’s media briefing, clarifying comments President Obama made in an interview airing Sunday.
Earnest stressed, however, that the president was not aware that Clinton’s e-mail domain was hosted on a privately owned server. The White House said it was also not informed how Clinton’s team intended to comply with the Federal Records Act.
“What is clear, as the president said in his interview, is that he emails that he sends are properly maintained consistent with the president records act. That, by the way, would be true of any emails he received from his secretary of state,” said Earnest.
Jose A. DelReal covers national politics for The Washington Post.
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