John Podesta
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"John David Podesta" is the Chairman of the presumptive Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016/2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Podesta previously served as White House Chief of Staff/Chief of Staff to President of the United States/President Bill Clinton and Counselor to the President/Counselor to President of the United States/President Barack Obama. He is the former president and now Chair and Counselor of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Modern liberalism in the United States/liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., and is also a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He was a co-chairman of the Presidential transition of Barack Obama/Obama-Biden Transition Project.

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Our administration has already moved to liberalize export controls on encryption, allowing more companies to export the technology to more end users. And we've done so while maintaining a framework necessary to protect our national security, ... Today we are announcing significant new updates.

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We never discussed any matters having to do with any of the things that have been alleged by his critics. There was no wrongdoing.

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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

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There should be greater judicial oversight of trap and trace authorities, ... Federal law should make clear that such orders should only be issued after a judicial officer has determined that the proper factual showing has been made.

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The president is committed to saving Social Security, maintaining our hard won fiscal responsibility, reforming and strengthening our public schools so they work better for our children, passing a patient's bill or rights, strengthening America's leadership in the global economy and securing the peace in troubled areas around the world.

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There was no wrong-doing.

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Small attacks -- those under $5,000 damage -- should be treated as a misdemeanor and not a felony. But multiple attacks should be treated as one large attack and punished accordingly.

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Basically just didn't care if we followed Justice Department guidelines.

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We bear the responsibility for having a process that we thought was manageable that in the last days, I think, broke down and let some of these (late pardon requests) go through. There are very few that came up -- and I would put Rich as probably the number one example, in which the process broke down. I don't think the president got good and full advice on it.

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