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Clinton Emails: Billionaire Donor Soros Regretted Supporting Obama

Clinton Emails: Billionaire Donor Soros Regretted Supporting Obama

By    |   Thursday, 31 December 2015 07:47 PM EST

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails show Democrat megadonor George Soros regretted supporting Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries, Politico reports.
 
In the batch of emails released by the State Department on Thursday, Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress, writes to Clinton in May 2012 to tell her of a conversation she had with Soros at a dinner for Democracy Alliance, a club for major Democratic donors.

"I told him I worked for you in the primaries and he said he's been impressed that he can always call/meet with you on an issue of policy and said he hasn't met with the President ever (though I thought he had)," Tanden wrote. "He then said he regretted his decision in the primary — he likes to admit mistakes when he makes them and that was one of them. He then extolled his work with you from your time as First Lady on."

Soros told The New Yorker  in 2012 he felt snubbed by Obama after he had tried to set up a meeting with the president at the White House. The two later met at "a low-profile, private meeting in New York, when the President was in town for other business," The New Yorker wrote.

The magazine quoted a Soros insider saying: "They pissed on him... He didn’t want a ******* thing! He didn’t want a state dinner, or a White House party—he just wanted to be taken seriously.”

The Soros anecdote was one revelation in about 5,500 pages of Clinton emails released Thursday.

Also Thursday, the State Department said that portions of 275 of the emails released on New Year's Eve have been newly classified.

Clinton has said she didn't send or receive information that was classified at the time via her personal email account, which was run on a private server at her New York home. Republicans have repeatedly questioned whether her use of a private email system put sensitive information at risk.

In all, the State Department said 1,274 of Clinton's emails have been retroactively classified since the department started reviewing them for public release.

Two emails released Thursday were designated "secret," the second-highest level of classification, which applies to information that could cause serious damage to national security if released. Most of the emails were classified "confidential," which is the lowest level of classification.

Here's a look at some other revelations in the latest batch:

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EMAIL USE

Clinton and one of her closest aides, Jake Sullivan, had an exchange in September 2010 that showed considerable confusion over her email practices.

"I'm never sure which of my emails you receive, so pls let me know if you receive this one and on which address you did," she wrote to Sullivan on a Sunday morning.

A few hours later Sullivan responded: "I have just received this email on my personal account, which I check much less frequently than my State Department account. I have not received any emails from you on my State account in recent days — for example, I did not get the email you sent to me and (Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Jeff) Feltman on the Egyptian custody case. Something is very wrong with the connection there."

Sullivan added, "I suppose a near-term fix is to just send messages to this account — my personal account — and I will check it more frequently."

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2010 MIDTERMS

Politics was never far from Clinton's mind at the State Department. In September 2010, as Republicans threatened to take the majority in the House, Clinton told former policy adviser Neera Tanden, president of the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, "I confess I'm bewildered at how poorly the Dems are doing in driving any message and putting the Rs on the defensive."

"Do you and CAP have any ideas as to how to change the dynamic — before it's too late?" Clinton asked. Losing the House would, she wrote, "be a disaster in every way."

Republicans seized control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections in what President Barack Obama later called a "shellacking."

CHICAGO

Clinton showed keen interest in the politics of her hometown of Chicago when longtime Mayor Richard M. Daley announced in September 2010 he would not run for re-election.

Betsy Ebeling, Clinton's close childhood friend, told Clinton in an email that she was in "shock." Clinton responded: "I'm in shock too," asking Ebeling to "share any and all insights into this huge news (as any real Chicagoan knows it to be!)"

Ebeling said the next day that "Rahm rumors are everywhere," referencing then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who is now Chicago's mayor.

Clinton replied: "I can't tell yet whether Rahm will actually decide to run. So it will be a wild ride the next few months."

SENATE TIES

A September 2011 exchange with Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland showed Clinton's ties to the female Democrats in the Senate, her former colleagues.

Mikulski emailed Clinton, a former New York senator, to celebrate that the Senate had confirmed Wendy Sherman as an assistant secretary of state and invite Clinton to a gathering of female senators.

Noting they now meet in the Strom Thurmond room in the Capitol, Mikulski remarked, "Isn't that a hoot" — an apparent reference to the late South Carolina senator's history of womanizing.

Clinton wrote back, affectionately addressing Mikulski, the longest-serving female senator, as "dean." Clinton said she probably couldn't make it to the gathering.

Mikulski told Clinton she would always be welcome in the Senate and suggested she come over to the State Department "for a Diet Coke or something stronger."

MISSED DEADLINE

The State Department said it wouldn't meet a court-ordered goal of making 82 percent of Clinton's emails from her time at State public by year's end. The department said prior to Thursday's release that while it has "worked diligently" to come close to the goal, it will fall short because of the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule.

The department said Thursday it plans to release more Clinton emails next week.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took note of the timing of the latest release on Twitter, writing: "Do you believe that The State Department, on NEW YEAR'S EVE, just released more of Hillary's e-mails. They just want it all to end. BAD!"

But Trump's tweet was off-base. A federal judge set the schedule for the release of the emails, not Clinton or the department.

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