" the Clinton campaign is plotting a three-pronged pushback strategy."
I hope they push back Hard !
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-clinton-campaign-is-in-the-barrel-they-have-a-plan-to-get-out_55d76df0e4b08cd3359c0858?2ihpvi
The Clinton Campaign Is In 'The Barrel.' They Have A Plan To Get Out.
An October hearing before the House Benghazi Committee is eyed as a potential break point from months of bad headlines.
Sam Stein
Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/21/2015 03:47 PM EDT | Edited: 08/22/2015 10:16 AM EDT
WASHINGTON --.....................
"I wish this hadn’t happened," said one longtime adviser, "but it goes with Clinton Inc."
But the campaign is hardly nonchalant either. Instead, there are signs of real concern that the email issue will pester them for months to come. The judge overseeing the review has called for periodic updates on the contents of the material Clinton turned over to the State Department. And the immediate effect, as anticipated by aides, will be routine, largely negative headlines (about more potentially classified information exposed) even as the fundamental nature of the controversy remains the same -- that her email setup was questionable, but no information made its way through her inbox with classified markings.
To get in front of these headlines, the Clinton campaign is plotting a three-pronged pushback strategy. The first, described by communications director Jennifer Palmieri in an interview with The Huffington Post, is an end-of-summer effort to educate the public on the classification process for national security material. The second, coming when Congress returns from recess, is to aggressively pivot to policy announcements, from economic and women's issues to President Barack Obama's Iran deal, which will receive a vote in September. The last is to "go on offense" on Clinton's record as secretary of state, which the campaign sees as the ultimate target of her Republican critics.
"I have lived through a lot of Augusts with difficult political stories, from town halls to Ferguson last summer," said Palmieri, who previously served as communications director in the Obama White House. "So, I’ve seen worse [than this], for sure. We understand people have a lot of questions and we have a lot of good supporters out there with questions. We want to arm them with answers."
In attempting to soothe jittery Democrats, aides have begun highlighting Oct. 22 as a moment that could bring clarity -- if not some finality -- to the email story. Clinton will head to Capitol Hill that day for testimony before the House committee investigating the 2011 consulate attack in Benghazi. And the presumption that she'll do well under questioning is matched only by the conviction that House Republicans will grow over-eager under the camera lights.
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