State Department Left in Dark Over Hillary Email System

[Halliburton]

Throughout the controversy over her use of a private e-mail system while she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has described her decision last year to turn over thousands of work-related e-mails as a response to a routine-sounding records request.

“When we were asked to help the State Department make sure they had everything from other secretaries of state, not just me, I’m the one who said, ‘Okay, great, I will go through them again,’?” Clinton said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And we provided all of them.”

But State Department officials provided new information Tuesday that undercuts Clinton’s characterization. They said the request was not about general recordkeeping but was prompted entirely by the discovery that Clinton had exclusively used a private e-mail system. They also said they first contacted her in the summer of 2014, at least three months before the agency asked Clinton and three of her predecessors to provide their e-mails.

“In the process of responding to congressional document requests pertaining to Benghazi, State Department officials recognized that it had access to relatively few email records from former Secretary Clinton,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement e-mailed to The Washington Post. “State Department officials contacted her representatives during the summer of 2014 to learn more about her email use and the status of emails in that account.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-departments-account-of-e-mail-request-differs-from-clintons/2015/09/22/54cd66bc-5ed9-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html

[leftofcool]

1. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[zappaman]

2. Snore

Nothing better to do today?

[Capn Sunshine]

3. Colin Powell and Condi Rice BOTH had private servers

WHY are Hillary's so important , and not theirs?

Personally , I'd like to know more about our entry into Iraq and Afghanistan, and how much Condi knew about the 9-11 attacks.

Yet, minutiae about Hillary's correspondence is important why?

[RiverLover]

4. Neither had private SERVERS. That is unprecedented by a federal employee. She's the first & the last

There's a reason for that too.

[Fawke Em]

5. They also kept their work emails separate from their private ones. eom

[Capn Sunshine]

7. Right you are. They had private email accounts, not servers.

Private server must have taken place because of Hillary's vast computer knowledge and desire to keep everything out of the public's hands.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. And Powell followed the DoD model

His laptop for private shit was not connected to the government shit

Hate to defend anybody here. But when he explained it, well it was standard process at DoD

[karynnj]

8. They had private email accounts that they used for some of their email - not servers

[starroute]

11. The real question now is why Hillary is spinning so hard

It seems like she's trying to create a narrative in which she responded to a routine request quickly and even enthusiastically. But that apparently isn't what really happened.

So is she covering something up? Is she just so afraid of being caught out in a screw-up that it comes across as if she has something to hide? And either way, will we ever get a straight story out of her?

[Catherina]

6. Rec'd n/t