Clinton considered turning to Weiner for help with a problem
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and a senior aide discussed sending a secure cellphone to the secretary of state by FedEx or a personal courier, according to emails from 2010 released by the State Department. Either approach would have been acceptable, the State Department says in retrospect, if the telephone was rendered inoperable for the journey.
The unusual exchange from six years ago begins with Clinton confidante Huma Abedin telling her boss that she would mail the secure phone from Washington before her husband, then-Rep. Anthony Weiner, takes her to the airport. Clinton asks if one of Weiner’s assistants could make the delivery.
“OK I will (redacted) just fedex secure cellphone from dc. Anthony leaving office to bring me to airport now so hopefully will make it just in time,” Abedin writes in the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2010.
“Maybe one of Anthony’s trusted staff could deliver secure phone?” Clinton responds four hours later.