A Republican political group is seeking records of the State Department’s involvement with the private server Hillary Clinton used as secretary.
America Rising submitted five Freedom of Information Act requests to the State Department Tuesday, hours before Clinton attempted to defend her email arrangement in a press conference that has since been widely panned.
One of the requests sought travel records of any State Department employees who visited Chappaqua between 2008-13. Clinton reportedly housed her server in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., home.
“With countless questions swirling around Secretary Clinton’s server and a new rationalization from the candidate every day, it’s time for answers,” Jeff Bechdel, a spokesman for America Rising, told the Washington Examiner. “Since Secretary Clinton is unable or unwilling to provide straightforward answers to the American people, America Rising is using the Freedom of Information Act to determine who handled the server, what costs to the American people were involved and correspondence therein.”
Another request sought the personnel records of Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton aide who managed the email network from the time it was established during her 2008 presidential campaign until 2013, when a Denver-based company assumed responsibility for the server.
Pagliano, who was paid through Clinton’s political action committee starting in 2006, transitioned to the State Department with Clinton in 2009 after her first presidential bid failed.
He remained at State as a “special adviser” until 2013, when he left the agency the same month Clinton stepped down from her post.
America Rising also sought documentation of State Department officials’ travel to Denver, the base of operations for Platte River Networks, which handled Clinton’s server starting in 2013.
An attorney for Platte River said the company transferred all data off the server in mid-2013, noting the server presently in FBI custody likely contains “no useful data.”
However, FBI investigators have expressed confidence that they can recover at least some data off the server.
