Story highlights David Axelrod criticized Hillary Clinton after her medical episode during a 9/11 memorial serviceThe former adviser to Obama has regularly poked Clinton's campaign on Twitter(CNN) A former senior adviser to President Barack Obama criticized Hillary Clinton's "unhealthy penchant for privacy" on Monday, following Clinton's early departure from a September 11 memorial and the campaign's later acknowledgment that the Democratic presidential nominee had been diagnosed Friday with pneumonia. David Axelrod, who is a CNN political commentator, tweeted, "Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What's the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?" What's the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems? Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, responded on Twitter, "We could have done better yesterday, but it is a fact that public knows more about HRC than any nominee in history."

Source: CNN September 12, 2016 14:25 UTC