BREAKING – State Dept Finds Hillary Wanted to Avoid Freedom of Information Act Access to Emails
Politico’s Rachel Bade and Josh Gerstein Report:
Hillary Clinton expressed concern in November 2010 about the risk of her personal emails becoming accessible after one of her top aides said they needed to discuss putting her on the State Department’s email system.
The revelation of the exchange between Clinton and Huma Abedin was included in a report from the State Department’s inspector general that was released to lawmakers on Wednesday.
The report concluded that Clinton violated the agency’s email rules when she chose to exclusively use a private email server during her four years at State Department and did not promptly turn over records after she departed the agency. The document also included some details of an exchange between Clinton and Abedin, who both chose not to cooperate with the IG’s investigation.
“In November 2010, Secretary Clinton and her Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations discussed the fact that Secretary Clinton’s emails to Department employees were not being received,” the report said. “The Deputy Chief of Staff emailed the Secretary that “we should talk about putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam.” In response, the Secretary wrote, “Let’s get separate address or device but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.”
SCOOP POSTING NOW: State OIG report says @HillaryClinton did NOT comply with federal records act, despite her campaign's claim 2 contrary
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 25, 2016
MORE FROM REPORT: @hillaryclinton, Mills, Huma, Sullivan didn't cooperate w/State OIG probe. Powell, Albright, Rice did interviews
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 25, 2016
DUDE. State IG report has Clinton telling Abedin she doesn't want an official email acct b/c she wants to avoid FOIA pic.twitter.com/apAbAS76Aa
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 25, 2016
