Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department, warned the former secretary of state in November 2010 that she should consider using an official agency address because her emails were getting caught in her subordinates’ spam folders.
“We should talk about putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam,” Abedin wrote to Clinton after she missed a scheduled call because her emails did not reach her staff. “Its not the phone message system, its the device delay [sic].”
In a separate conversation with Clinton that same day, Abedin told her that her approval of a statement to the press did not go through because “you went to spam.”
“[I]t happens a lot when you email state emails,” Abedin said.
The emails were included in a batch of 112 documents made public by the State Department in Friday.
The emails — many of which were nearly identical to emails released previously by the agency — were recovered by the FBI during its year-long investigation of Clinton’s server.
Clinton has claimed she opted to use a personal server to conduct work-related communications for the “convenience” of carrying one mobile device.
What’s more, Clinton has maintained that her use of a private email server was permitted by rules in place at the time of her tenure. Officials in charge of record-keeping, such as Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy, have denied knowing that she used a personal address.
