WikiLeaks Reaches Back Into President Obama’s Past

WikiLeaks  REACHES  BACK  IN  TO  'PRESIDENT'  OBAMA'S  PAST                                         "an  extremely  awkward  situation"

by Jack Davis October 20, 2016 at 4:24pm

WikiLeaks released emails Thursday from a private email account belonging to President Barack Obama. The messages released date from the months prior to his January 2009 inauguration.

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WikiLeaks reveals first batch of US president Barack Obama emails sent via secret address bobama@ameritech.com https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=bobama&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=6#searchresult …

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The emails were sent from what WikiLeaks claims is a secret address, “bobama@ameritech.com.” CNBC reported Thursday that email sent to that address did not bounce back, but neither was there a response.

In releasing the emails, WikiLeaks also promised another surprise.

One email in the Obama collection was from Citigroup executive — and later Assistant to the President Michael Froman. It provides a list of possible cabinet candidates sliced and diced by race and gender.

 

The email said it has a “list of African American, Latino and Asian American candidates, divided between Cabinet/Deputy and Under/Assistant/Deputy Assistant Secretary levels, as well as lists of senior Native Americans, Arab/Muslim Americans and Disabled Americans.

“A list of women, similarly divided between candidates for Cabinet/Deputy and other senior level positions” was also attached.

The lists show that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also considered to be secretary of health and human services.

Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state under former President George W. Bush, was considered for the post of secretary of education.

A Nov. 4, 2008 email — the day Obama was being elected — urged him not to appear with Bush at an upcoming G-20 summit.

“Attendance alongside President Bush will create an extremely awkward situation. If you attempt to disassociate yourself from his positions, you will be subject to criticism for projecting a divided United States to the rest of the world,” it read.

“But if you adopt a more reserved posture, you will be associated not only with his policies, but also with his very tenuous global standing,” it added.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/wikileaks-reaches-back-president-obamas-past/