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Obama adviser behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal
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President Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, right, and Hillary
Clinton Photo: Startraks.com/Getty Images

It’s the vast left-wing conspiracy.

Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary
Clinton’s <http://nypost.com/tag/hillary-clinton/> use of a private e-mail
address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me.

But she did so through people outside the ­administration, so the story
couldn’t be traced to her or the White House.

In addition, at Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to
launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at Foggy Bottom,
including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her
contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton
Foundation.

Six separate probes into Hillary’s performance have been ­going on at the
State Department. I’m told that the e-mail scandal
<http://nypost.com/2015/03/10/hillary-concedes-she-should-have-used-government-email/>
was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally
announcing that she was running for president — and that there’s more to
come.

Members of Bill Clinton’s camp say the former president suspects the White
House is the source of the leak and is furious.

‘Obama and Valerie Jarrett will go to any lengths to prevent Hillary from
becoming president.’
- Source

“My contacts and friends in newspapers and TV tell me that they’ve been
contacted by the White House and offered all kinds of negative stories
about us,” one of Bill’s friends quotes him as saying. “The Obamas are
behind the e-mail story, and they’re spreading rumors that I’ve been with
women, that Hillary promoted people at the State Department who’d done
favors for our foundation, that John Kerry had to clean up diplomatic
messes Hillary left behind.”

Then, according to this source, Bill added: “The Obamas are out to get us
any way they can.”

The sabotage is part of an ­ongoing feud between the two Democrat
powerhouses.

Last fall, during the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections, Jarrett was
heard to complain bitterly that the Clintons were turning congressmen,
senators, governors and grass-root party members against Obama by
portraying him as an unpopular president who was an albatross around the
neck of the party.

Jarrett was said to be livid that most Democrats running for election
refused to be seen campaigning with the president. She blamed the Clintons
for marginalizing the president and for trying to wrestle control of the
Democratic Party away from Obama.

And she vowed payback.

My sources say Jarrett saw an opportunity to hit back hard when Monica
Lewinsky <http://nypost.com/tag/monica-lewinsky/> suddenly resurfaced after
years of living in obscurity. Jarrett discreetly put out word to some
friendly members of the press that the White House would look with favor if
they gave Monica some ink and airtime.

Relations have gotten even frostier in the past few months.

After the Democrats took a shellacking in the midterms, the White House
scheduled a meeting with Hillary Clinton. When she showed up in the Oval
Office, she was greeted by three people — the president, Jarrett and
Michelle Obama.

With his wife and Jarrett looking on, Obama made it clear that he intended
to stay neutral in the presidential primary process — a clear signal that
he wouldn’t mind if someone challenged Hillary for the nomination.

“Obama and Valerie Jarrett will go to any lengths to prevent Hillary from
becoming president,” a source close to the White House told me. “They
believe that Hillary, like her husband, is left of center, not a true-blue
liberal.”

If she gets into the White House, they believe she will compromise with the
Republicans in Congress and undo Obama’s legacy.

“With Obama’s approval,” this source continued, “Valerie has been holding
secret meetings with Martin O’Malley [the former Democratic governor of
Maryland] and [Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren. She’s promised
O’Malley and Warren the full support of the White House if they will
challenge Hillary for the presidential nomination.”

*Edward Klein’s most recent book is “Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the
Obamas” (Regnery).*


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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