Posted on 03/02/2015 9:01:12 PM PST by kristinn
housands of emails Hillary Clinton generated as secretary of state were not archived as official government records because she used a private email account to conduct State Department business, the State Department acknowledged Monday.
Aides to the former secretary of state turned over 55,000 pages of emails from her personal account to the State Department in December at its request, a department official said.
Clinton’s use of the personal account for work-related emails and the State Department’s effort to gain control over the information were first reported by The New York Times. Clinton did not use a State Department email account, the paper reported.
“Last year, the Department sent a letter to representatives of former secretaries of state requesting they submit any records in their possession for proper preservation. In response to our request, Secretary Clinton provided the Department with emails spanning her time at the Department,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
The Times story suggested that the private email trove came to light as the State Department worked to respond to requests for information from a special House committee probing the deaths of four Americans in a 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
However, a State Department official who asked not to be named said Monday night that the request to Clinton and other former secretaries took place in October of last year and was independent of any inquiries from the Benghazi panel.
Psaki did acknowledge that the set of emails Clinton aides gave to the department recently contained some records relevant to the Benghazi committee’s document demands.
“After the State Department reviewed [Clinton’s] emails, we produced about 300 e-mails responsive to recent requests from the Select Committee” on Benghazi, Psaki said.
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More criminality for Congress to do nothing about...
Darn good thing she’s not a Republican anymore or she could be in SERIES trouble!
The fact she was using unsecured, private email might help to explain how the Ansar al-Islam terrorists were able to pinpoint where our people were in Benghazi that night.
Dear Abdul,
Just a quick note to thank you for your generous donation to my foundation.
Hillary,
Sent from my State Dept. ipad
Elizabeth Warren is the new Great White Hope for the progressives..
Would be interesting to determine what kind of email account Condi Rice used during her tenure.
She did what????? So what...if nothing happens to her? So what? She and her criminal “husband” have a $2,000,000,000.00 kitty in their “foundation” to tide them over. So what?>
If a law is no longer enforced (which will be the case here), is it still a law?
And that chick at the EPA.
She probably thought, “Laws? Laws are for peasants!” ;)
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