On Feb. 27, 2011, Clinton asked Sullivan where John Godfrey, who had sent an email with the subject line “Libya: Thoughts on post-Qadhafi Assistance & Governance” from a redacted account, now worked.
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“I was surprised that he used personal email account if he is at State”, Clinton wrote to Jake Sullivan.
The material was not marked classified at the time the emails were sent.
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), who serves on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, said in a statement Friday that any ordinary State Department employee would not have gotten away with doing what Clinton did.
“It’s not atypical for documents – unclassified documents – to be created, crafted, edited, shared on a classified system”, he told reporters. “Generally speaking, I can say that just because a document is sent via a secure method doesn’t mean that it’s classified”. It wasn’t clear if any information in the document was classified to begin with.
Clinton also expressed surprise in another 2011 email that a State Department staffer would use a private email account for work, according to the latest batch of Clinton emails released by the State Department under a schedule ordered by a federal judge. “We’ve asked about the trip and have been working with his staff on the trip, but this is as much as they’ve commented on”.
Pompeo said he is “anxious” for the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine whether they will bring charges against Clinton as quickly as possible.
To keep on pace, the State Department says it will comply with all the recommendations for improvement and has already hired a “transparency coordinator”, which the report noted as a positive step. The new documents were an effort to comply with a court order to release 82 percent of Clinton’s correspondence by the end of 2015 – a goal the agency fell short of last week.
The former secretary of state has faced questions during her campaign about whether her unusual email setup was sufficient to ensure the security of government information and retention of records.
Department leaders ignored one request for Mrs. Clinton’s schedules “for several years”, and in another instance insisted it couldn’t find any records relating to Mrs. Clinton’s other emails – even though at the time, “dozens of senior officials” were aware of her unique email arrangement. All but one of those documents contained material later determined to be “confidential” level, and one was labeled “secret”. It raises a host of serious questions and underscores the importance of the various inquiries into the transmittal of classified information through her nongovernment email server.
Other emails illustrate the complicated relationship between Clinton and President Barack Obama, the man she now hopes to replace.
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Linick found that records involving Clinton’s private email account, requested in 2012 by the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, had turned up no records. “Waay down”, Reines wrote.
