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sauce: https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/philippe-reines-2014-2/
As any Washington spinmeister knows, the worst mistake is one that underscores the perpetratorâs key flaws, perceived or real, which is why the latest BuzzFeed episode stings: It echoes an exchange about Benghazi with BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings, back in 2012, in which Reines told Hastingsâagain via e-mailâto âfuck offâ and âhave a good life.â
âThe âfuck offâ thing was terrible,â Reines says, not because he was aggressive with Hastingsâwho died in a car crash last yearâbut because âI could not have been more disrespectful of the tragedyâ of the attack in Libya. âIt was a Sunday morning when I wrote it,â Reines recalls. âMonday is when it hit. Tuesday, waking up and reading the clips of just headline after headline after headline that contained the words Benghazi, ambassador, four Americans killed, Reines, Clinton, fuck off. It was just so disrespectful,â he says. âI donât mind telling people to fuck off. Someone wants to know, you know, âWe hear her shoe size is really five and a half, not six.â I mean, fuck off.â
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sauce: https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/clinton-aide-reines-apologized-to-hastings-137106
Philippe Reines, the aide to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, has apologized to BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings for a heated, expletive-laden email exchange last week over the State Dept.'s handling of the fallout from events in Libya, POLITICO has learned.
"No matter how strongly you feel about something, there's a way to make a point," Reines told POLITICO. "That wasn't it, and I apologized to him for that."
Reines and Hastings' email exchange, published in full on BuzzFeed, followed Reines' attack on CNN for its decision to take the diary belonging to late U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens from the consulate in Benghazi, following the attack that took his life. In a public statement on September 22, Reines slammed the cable network for the âdisgustingâ and "indefensible" act of going against the wishes of Stevens' family and reporting on the diary, which showed that Stevens had been worried about a threat on his life by Al Qaeda.
In his email to Reines, sent the following day, Hastings criticized the State Dept. aide for his "offensive" and "over the top" attack on CNN, and accused him of "trying to make a scapegoat out of CNN" in order to distract from the Obama administration's security failures in Benghazi. Reines responded by telling Hastings to "Fuck off" and "Have a good life."
Despite signalling an end to their relationship, Reines followed up two days later with an apology in what was described as a "completely civil" email exchange.
That apology comes as the State Dept. and the Obama adminstration continue to face blowback over their handling of the attack in Benghazi, which is increasingly becoming a political issue in the final weeks of the 2012 presidential race.