Newly disclosed correspondence between State Department officials in 2013 suggest the agency was aware of 17 Freedom of Information Act requests for Hillary Clinton’s emails more than a year before asking the former secretary of state to hand over records from her server.

The email chain, which was in a batch of documents obtained by conservative-leaning Judicial Watch, revealed that a FOIA officer sought “a copy of all requests related to Secretary Clinton’s emails” in Aug. 2013 and pressed colleagues about specific requests from Gawker, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and Judicial Watch itself.