Was THIS Photo the Beginning of THE END for Hillary?
State Department officials in charge of public records were not aware Hillary Clinton was using e-mail during her tenure there until they saw a viral image of the then-secretary of state looking at her BlackBerry on a satirical blog called “Texts from Hillary.”
Speaking under oath in a lawsuit brought against the department by a conservative legal watchdog, a State Department official said the office in charge of processing open-records requests at the agency had no idea Clinton was using e-mail.
So when “Texts from Hillary” made the Clinton image ubiquitous in 2012, the department decided to check whether she still had no official account.
“When Mrs. Clinton’s photo appeared in the media with her using — appearing to use — some sort of a mobile device, Clarence Finney checked with [the IT office] to confirm whether the answer was still that she did not have a state.gov e-mail account,” department official Karin Lang said in testimony posted online by Judicial Watch.
Finney was in charge of the office responsible for processing Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to Clinton, according to The Hill newspaper, which reports on Congress. Such requests often include official e-mail sent by government workers.
Clinton, as it turned out, did not have a government e-mail. Instead, she was sending sensitive info through a private e-mail address that was housed on a home-brew server stashed in the basement of her Chappaqua home.
Judicial Watch’s suit seeks records about the employment status of Clinton’s longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin.
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