DOJ Fed Information on Email Scandal to Clinton Camp

The Hillary Clinton campaign for president had communication from the Justice Department on the investigation into Clinton’s private emails — messages that could constitute a heads-up for the campaign on the criminal case.

According to emails leaked from campaign Chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account, the Clinton campaign was contacted by “DOJ folks” on May 19, 2015.

“So we could have a window into the judge’s thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today.”

“DOJ folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning, so we could have a window into the judge’s thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today,” wrote Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon.

Why a press secretary would be contacted by the Justice Department on a judge’s schedule is unclear.

But the “production schedule” appears to mean what the State Department would have to turn over to the Justice Department in terms of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Clinton left the State Department in 2013.

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Just a few days after Fallon said he was contacted by the Justice Department, the State Department released 296 of Clinton’s emails pertaining to the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi to the House Select Committee investigating the incident.

The revelation the DOJ may have fed the Clinton campaign internal information on the email scandal could be the most damaging yet after three massive dumps from WikiLeaks over the last several days.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus hammered the news Tuesday.

“Emails showing the Department of Justice was giving Hillary Clinton’s campaign inside information about an ongoing investigation into her email server is deeply disturbing and raises even more questions about Bill Clinton’s tarmac meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch,” Priebus said in a statement. “Hillary Clinton jeopardized our national security and sensitive diplomatic efforts with the secret email server she set up to hide corruption at her State Department. Instead of facing consequences for her actions like others have, she’s been protected at every turn by the Obama administration so she can continue the failed policies of the last eight years.”

The story may have even finally caught the attention of the liberal media, which has been striving to ignore the ongoing WikiLeaks disclosures.

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“NEW: Hacked emails from WikiLeaks appear to show Clinton campaign spokesman in touch with DOJ officials regarding email litigation,” tweeted NBC investigative reporter Tom Winter.

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Complicating the issue is the fact that many of Clinton’s emails were stored on a private server. Many of those emails contained classified information, and were not allowed to be run through Clinton’s private server.

How much contact President Obama’s administration had with Clinton’s campaign during the FBI investigation is a thorny issue. Just before the FBI announced it would not recommend charges on July 5, the attorney general met with former President Bill Clinton on an Arizona airport tarmac on June 27.

That meeting angered critics of the Justice Department and FBI investigation, as they charged the fix was always in.