My 2016 reporting takes on new relevance with the release of the Durham Annex. - President Obama did not want his legacy damaged by the Clinton email investigation. - Clinton emails apparently vetted and approved for his BlackBerry. @FBIDDBongino “President Obama’s high-security BlackBerry used a special process known as “whitelisting” that only allowed it to take calls and messages from pre-approved contacts, two former senior intelligence officials with knowledge of the set-up told me in 2016 – pointing to the detail as further proof the Obama White House knew Hillary Clinton’s private account was used for government business.  As the administration now acknowledges, Obama and Clinton emailed each other while she was helming the State Department. If received on his BlackBerry, the “whitelisting” safeguard means Clinton and other contacts would have had to be approved as secure for data transmission – covering everything from emails to texts to phone calls. The Obama BlackBerry would have also been configured to accept the communications. “Think of whitelisting like a bouncer in the VIP line at the party. If you are on the list you get in, if you are not, you get bounced to the pavement,” said Bob Gourley @bobgourley former chief technology officer (CTO) for the DIA. A second former intelligence official, who asked to speak on background, described the same process for the president’s BlackBerry, adding the timing is important.  If Clinton email .com were “whitelisted” before March 2015, it would further undercut administration statements. President Obama initially claimed in March 2015, when the details of Clinton’s secret server were first made public by the New York Times, that he only learned about the system from news reports, along with everyone else.”