On Thursday, a State Department spokesman questioned why those with knowledge of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email didn’t provide better information. He said “there was only a partial understanding of how much Secretary Clinton relied on personal email.”
The spokesman in question is Mark Toner. As reported by CNN, he told reporters that “the people who may have had a broader knowledge or a fuller appreciation of — to the extent at which Secretary Clinton was using her personal email — are no longer here at the department.”He added:
“They are now, many of them, with Secretary Clinton. And frankly, I would just have to ask you to ask them to answer that question: Whether it was how much they knew? And if they knew that she was relying significantly or solely on personal email, why didn’t they make this — others aware of it? I just can’t answer that question.”
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The depositions are part of a Judicial Watch lawsuit focused on the department’s handling of Freedom of Information Act requests.
This information has only been coming to light after a State Department Inspector General issued a report criticizing Clinton’s email practices.
In the first of at least seven dispositions in regards to Clinton’s email usage, the former State Department deputy executive secretary, Lewis Lukens, revealed that Clinton’s staff told him that she was “not adept” at using a computer and that the staff had sought a special room to enable BlackBerry access.Lukens also discussed how Clinton’s then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, talked to him about allowing Clinton to maintain access to her email even through mobile devices.
Mills will be deposed on Friday at an undisclosed location for up to seven hours. She tried to persuade a judge on Thursday to prevent Judicial Watch from releasing video of the deposition.