An email discussing the possibility that Hillary Clinton’s emails could be “accessible” if the State Department was aware of her private network was not among the roughly 30,000 records the former secretary of state submitted to the government in late 2014.
The chain, which was obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch and made public Wednesday, indicated Clinton was concerned that releasing her email address to the State Department would expose her records to the Freedom of Information Act.
But she did not hand over the email to the State Department when she was asked to relinquish all work-related communications, raising questions about the authenticity of her statements assuring voters that she turned over all official records.
The State Department confirmed the fact that Clinton and her legal team omitted the email, according to a report Thursday by the Associated Press.
Instead, the email was provided by Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff, when she turned over an additional set of emails to the State Department.
Abedin is the only other aide known to have used an address on the “clintonemail.com” network.
In the Nov. 2010 email that Clinton withheld, Abedin noted Clinton’s emails were not reaching State inboxes.
“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.
But Clinton expressed concern that doing so would expose her private email network.
“Let’s get separate address or device, but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible,” Clinton replied.
Other emails included in the batch made public Wednesday suggested Clinton’s email server weathered frequent outages and even, on at least one occasion, attempted cyberattacks.
