Hillary Clinton assured us the other day that most of her emails were already archived because she was corresponding with State Dept. employees who have .gov email addresses.
“The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department.”
Turns out that’s not true at all:
POLITICO – Hillary Clinton’s explanation for her use of a personal email account while she served as secretary of state suffered another blow Friday as the State Department disclosed that the email accounts of senior department officials were not automatically archived until last month.
Clinton said at a news conference Tuesday that she believed the vast majority of work-related emails she sent or received from her private account were “preserved” because she was in correspondence with other officials using “.gov” accounts.
However, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters archiving of the work email boxes of senior State Department officials besides the secretary did not begin until “February of this year.” She previously said Secretary of State John Kerry uses an official account and his emails have been archived since he succeeded Clinton.
“Our goal is to apply this [automatic archiving] to all employee mailboxes by the end of 2016,” Psaki said.
A Clinton spokesman had no comment on the department’s disclosure.
Of course they weren’t. But hey, what difference does it make? Hillary said we should trust her, that she didn’t do anything wrong. Don’t you believe her?
As a side note, notice how Politico writes that Clinton ‘believed‘ her emails were preserved. They are still trying to cover for her even now. But if you look at the actual quote above from the press conference, Clinton made an emphatic statement, not a suggestion or a belief.