What’s in the seventh batch of e-mails released by WikiLeaks?

“Can of worms”: Considering how quickly and loudly Colin Powell emphasized that he did not advise her to use her own private server, maybe the whole Clinton campaign should have listened to Robby Mook. In a March 7, 2015 e-mail chain about how to handle the revelation of the private server, Mook wrote:

The one thing in here I feel strongly about is that she NOT include the part about meeting with other former secretaries and that they told her she should do this. I recognize that the boss will have to approve, but if she wants to include that, I’d say we should discuss with her. I worry it opens a major can of worms and deflects the heat in a potentially unhelpful way.

Poor Robby Mook. He saw this coming, but Hillary Clinton just wouldn’t listen.

“WJC chose”: Does Huma Abedin use “Bill chose this” as a way of convincing Hillary to agree to decisions she would otherwise oppose?

On March 11, 2015, Abedin and several other staffers were e-mailing about whether Bill Clinton should go forward with a paid speech before the bank Morgan Stanley, which was scheduled for three days after the launch of her campaign.

Abedin wrote:

Ok HRC very strongly did not want him to cancel that particular speech. I think if John is getting involved in this scheduling matter, he must feel strongly. I will have to tell her that WJC chose to cancel it, not that we asked

Hours later, she updated the group:

HRC is reiterating her original position. She does not want him to cancel.

So Hillary Clinton was surprisingly adamant that Bill to keep doing those lucrative speaking gigs before Wall Street groups while she was running for president.

Once again, Robby Mook tried to save Hillary Clinton from herself:

I feel very strongly that doing the speech is a mistake–the data are very clear on the potential consequences. It will be three days after she’s announced and on her first day in Iowa, where caucus goes have a sharply more negative view of Wall Street than the rest of the electorate. Wall Street ranks first for Iowans among a list of institutions that “take advantage of every day Americans”, scoring twice as high as the general election electorate.

The speech was eventually canceled.

“Putting her foot down”: Does it seem like Hillary Clinton has been trying to have it both ways with the Trans Pacific Partnership and Trade Promotion Authority? On April 13, 2015, Clinton’s pollster John Anzalone argued that it shouldn’t be a hard call: “Getting on the wrong side of Labor on the only issue they care about has ramifications on the ground in these early states. I say we suck it up and be as definitive as possible from the beginning that we don’t like these deals.”

Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan seemed to know a definitive stance just wasn’t going to happen: “John articulated my thoughts better than I did…but I know the boss won’t be comfortable putting her foot down.”

Ah, the decisive leader America needs!

“I didn’t expect to get… by you”: On July 24, 2015, longtime Hillary ally John Podesta was not happy with billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, feeling blindsided by a quote in the New York Times:

I am deep in the middle of dealing with getting ****ed by the NYT, but I didn’t expect to get ****ed by you in the NYT. Thanks a lot for jumping us. I hope President Bush helps you reach your climate goals.

“Get a life!”: Hillary Clinton, speaking to the Building Trades Union, September 9, 2015, wishing her environmental critics would “get a life”:

My view is I want to defend natural gas. I want to defend repairing and building the pipelines we need to fuel our economy. I want to defend fracking under the right circumstances. I want to defend, you know, new, modern [inaudible]. I want to defend this stuff. And you know, I’m already at odds with the most organized and wildest. They come to my rallies and they yell at me and, you know, all the rest of it. They say, ‘Will you promise never to take any fossil fuels out of the earth ever again?’ No. I won’t promise that. Get a life, you know.

Deploy the National Guard! “Why can’t we call in the national guard [sic] to help cities eradicate gangs? The drugs and shootings are insane,” environmental activist Wendy Abrams asked Podesta. And you thought the police were too militarized before!

What are we learning from these WikiLeaks e-mails? Mostly that our worst suspicions about Hillary Clinton and her longtime allies were right all along.