“Did you have any idea of the depth of this story?” John Podesta, now the chairman of Hillary for America, wrote in an e-mail to Robby Mook, the campaign’s manager-to-be, on March 3, 2015. The Times had just reported that Hillary Clinton had used a private e-mail address during her time as Secretary of State, circumventing the government system. “Nope,” Mook replied. “We brought up the existence of emails . . . but were told that everything was taken care of.” It is now clear that this was far from the case. The additional revelation of a private server led to a months-long F.B.I. investigation into Clinton’s e-mail arrangements, and into whether she or her aides had mishandled classified information. That probe ended, in July, with a recommendation that no…
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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 7, 2016