State Department: Don’t Blame Us for Hillary’s E-mail Issues

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The Cable:

The State Department defended a top official in charge of records management on Friday after the employee acknowledged he exchanged more than 50 emails with Hillary Clinton’s private email account during her tenure as secretary of state.

 

Clinton’s use of a private account came under renewed scrutiny in May when the State Department inspector general found that she had not sought permission to use the private server for official business and wouldn’t have received it if she did due to “significant security risks.”

 

In defending Patrick Kennedy, the under secretary of state for management and resources, the State Department said he and other State Department officials did not know the extent to which Clinton was exclusively using a private email account during her tenure.

 

“He received a relatively small number of emails from Secretary Clinton sporadically during her four-year tenure,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told Foreign Policy. “As with any other official at the department, having some knowledge is different from having a complete picture of how Secretary Clinton used email.”

 

The acknowledgement by Kennedy that he sent and received emails to Clinton’s private account for official business came in the form of a deposition transcript released on Thursday. A lawsuit by Judicial Watch has prompted eight Clinton aides and State Department officials to provide sworn testimony to the conservative watchdog organization.

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