A State Department official tasked with providing the agency’s side of the story in a lawsuit over Hillary Clinton’s private emails said Wednesday that the government initially assumed Clinton did not use email for any of her official communications when agents could not locate her records in 2013.

Karin Lang, director of executive secretariat staff at the State Department, said Clinton’s staff informed the agency she would not be needing a “state.gov” email account as she was transitioning into her post as secretary of state, according to a deposition transcript made public Thursday.