The State Department released 7,200 new pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private-server e-mails — some showing the then-secretary of state trying to learn emojis.
But no e-mails between Clinton and President Obama will be made public yet.
“There is a long history of presidential records being kept confidential while the president is in office,” said a senior administration official.
“It goes to the core of the president’s ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel,” said the official.
Friday’s release was the biggest document dump since the department began revealing e-mails in May, with 268 messages at the lowest level of security classification — although they were not marked as classified when sent.
E-mails from Clinton’s longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal show tensions between Clinton and the president.
In one e-mail, he criticizes the re-election strategy by Obama aide David Alexrod as “political malpractice.”
Other e-mails show top aides Huma Abedin, wife of ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, and Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, bickering in October 2010 over an outgoing Secret Service detail.
Other e-mails reveal that Clinton badly needed instruction in creating emojis.
“Here’s my question: on this new berry can I get smiley faces?” Clinton asks senior adviser Philippe Reines in an e-mail in April 2012.
“For e-mail, no, I don’t think so — you need to type them out manually like : ) for happy, or :-II if you want to express anger at my tardiness,” Reines replies.
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