The State Department has been unable to locate any emails that were sent to or from Hillary Clinton’s former IT aide at the department, according a Monday court filing.
The statement was made by lawyers responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee. The party sued for applicable records after the department failed to respond to a FOIA request.
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Former IT aide Bryan Pagliano served at the department for nearly the entirety of Clinton’s tenure from 2009-13. He was responsible for establishing a private server in the basement of Clinton’s home, which was allegedly unknown to anyone else at the department until after Clinton had left.
Pagliano was granted immunity by the Justice Department in March in exchange for cooperating with the investigation into Clinton’s use of the server, which involves more than 2,000 classified messages that Clinton sent or received during her tenure as secretary of state.
A spokesperson from the State Department, Elizabeth Trudeau, told reporters Monday that State was still looking for any of his emails that might exist while Clinton was in office, but didn’t offer a timetable or more details on when that might happen.
