WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy
of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private
homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The
disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been
deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
The
email was included within messages exchanged Nov. 13, 2010, between
Clinton and one of her closest aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.
At the time, emails sent from Clinton's BlackBerry device and routed
through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of her New
York home were being blocked by the State Department's spam filter. A
suggested remedy was for Clinton to obtain a state.gov email account.
"Let's get separate address or device but I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible," Clinton responded to Abedin.
Clinton
never used a government account that was set up for her, instead
continuing to rely on her private server until leaving office.
The
email was not among the tens of thousands of emails Clinton turned over
to the agency in response to public records lawsuits seeking copies of
her official correspondence. Abedin, who also used a private account on
Clinton's server, provided a copy from her own inbox after the State
Department asked her to return any work-related emails. That copy of the
email was publicly cited last month in a blistering audit by the State
Department's inspector general that concluded Clinton and her team
ignored clear internal guidance that her email setup violated federal
standards and could have left sensitive material vulnerable to hackers.
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