When did Barack Obama learn of Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” email server, through which she funneled even the most sensitive electronic correspondence as Secretary of State? “At the same time everybody else learned it through news reports,” the president said in March 2015. According to newly released private emails among Clinton advisors, that was not true.

“Looks like POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he saw it in the news,” wrote Hillary Clinton for America spokesman Josh Schwerin upon learning of Obama’s contention.