bobama@ameritech.net - Details of President Obama's Private Email Address

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Wikileaks has been busy lately releasing emails day after day. Now, however, they've upped the ante with President Obama's private email address. So what is bobama@ameritech.net ?

Among the 23,000 emails that Wikileaks has released so far, are these 7, which don't really contain anything political but they do contain something very interesting.

Notice the email address bobama@ameritech.net? Yes, that is Barack Obama's private email address. Here is one email that he sent from this address:

Re: Economic Staffing Decisions

From:bobama@ameritech.net

To: john.podesta@...

Date: 2008-10-30 23:47

Subject: Re: Economic Staffing Decisions

I will give you an answer on this tomorrow.

Barack

Sent via BlackBerry - a service from AT&T Wireless.

So President Obama is also using a private email address -- on a Blackberry, just like Hillary Clinton.

bobama@ameritech.net - What is Ameritech?

The domain name for the email address belongs to AT&T, and was formerly a part of Ameritech Cellular (until AT&T bought it).

Wikileaks has so far only released one email that was sent from the bobama@ameritech.net address, but there are several emails that were sent to the address.

None of them appear to contain any information that could be deemeed as classified.

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