State Department Lacks E-Mails From Clinton Aide During Key Time [View all]
Source: Bloomberg
The State Department has no record of e-mails during a key period to or from the staffer who established and maintained a private computer server used by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The staffer, Bryan Pagliano, was granted immunity in the FBI’s continuing probe into the security of the server. The State Department said Monday that while it does have e-mails related to Pagliano’s employment as a contractor after Clinton left office in 2013, it hasn’t found any from her tenure. The information came in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and a legal filing by the Republican National Committee.
Clinton used private e-mail to send or receive about 60,000 messages from 2009 to 2013. She and her aides said about half were work-related and turned over to the State Department. Under U.S. law, e-mails created or received during the course of official business are federal records.
Clinton’s use of the server has dogged the Democratic front-runner’s bid for the presidency for more than a year. The 68-year-old candidate has apologized for using the server, which she said was set up as a matter of convenience, and has denied she did anything illegal.
‘Shed Light’
"It’s hard to believe that an IT staffer who set up Hillary Clinton’s reckless email server never sent or received a single work-related email in the four years he worked at the State Department," said Raj Shah, deputy communications director at the RNC. "Such records might shed light on his role in setting up Clinton’s server, and why he was granted immunity by the FBI."
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