White House spox Josh Earnest backtracked Obama's blanket assertions WRT Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Asked outright by Steve Kroft on CBS' "60 Minutes," Obama said flatly, "I don't think it posed a national security problem."
Asked how the President was able to make such a definitive statement even as the FBI investigates the server's security, Earnest clarified that "The President was making an observation about what we know so far, that Secy Clinton herself turned over a bunch of email to the State Dept with differing assessments about what's included in there," Earnest said.
The President's comment "certainly was not an attempt, in any way, to undermine the importance or independence of the ongoing FBI investigation," Earnest said, stressing that Obama "has a healthy respect for the kinds of independent investigations now being conducted."
Obama also rejected the notion that Clinton's email practices compared to cases of individuals prosecuted over misuse of classified information. "We don't get an impression that there was purposely efforts ... to hide something or to squirrel away information," he said.
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