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Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:03:36 -0700

Raj Shah Tweet
5/9/16 4:33 PM
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POLITICO: State Department claims it can't find any Clinton texts or email file for IT aide politico.com/blogs/under-th...<https://t.co/4exo0OWqXb>

Lauren Hendricks

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Subject: RE: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC

Raj Shah Tweet
5/9/16 4:30 PM
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ABC News: No Emails Found for Hillary Clinton's Senior IT Staffer at State Department abcnews.go.com/Politics/email...<https://t.co/MJykXwqSyk>
Emails From Hillary Clinton's IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/emails-found-hillary-clintons-senior-staffer-state-department/story?id=38989504>
*         By JUSTIN FISHEL

May 9, 2016, 4:05 PM ET
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[PHOTO: Bryan Pagliano, a former State Department employee who helped set up and maintain a private email server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton, departs Capitol Hill, Sept. 10, 2015, in Washington.]Cliff Owen/AP Photo
WATCH A Whole Lot of Paper: Hillary Clinton's 55,000 Pages of Emails
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The State Department said today it can't find any of Bryan Pagliano's emails from the time he served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/whitehouse/hillary-clinton.htm>'s senior information technology staffer during her tenure there.

Pagliano would have been required to turn over any official communications from his work account before he left the government. State Department officials say he had an official email account, but that they can't find any of those records and continue to search for them.

"The Department has searched for Mr. Pagliano's email pst file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary Clinton's tenure," State Department spokesman Elizabeth Trudeau said today, referencing a file format that holds email.

"To be clear, the Department does have records related to Mr. Pagliano and we are working with Congress and [Freedom of Information Act] requesters to provide relevant material. The Department has located a pst from Mr. Pagliano's recent work at the Department as a contractor, but the files are from after Secretary Clinton left the Department," Trudeau added.

This statement about Pagliano's email comes in response to a FOIA request-turned-lawsuit by the Republican National Committee<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/republican-national-committee.htm>, which wants the State Department to turn over all his emails as well as Clinton's text and Blackberry Messenger communications. In a court filing today, the RNC said the State Department has told them there are no documents responsive to either of those requests.

Pagliano was responsible for setting up the now-infamous private server in the basement of the Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York. He has since become a key witness in the FBI inquiry into the handling of sensitive material on that server and has been granted immunity by the Justice Department in exchange for his cooperation.

"It's hard to believe that an IT staffer who set up Hillary Clinton's reckless email server never sent or received a single work-related email in the four years he worked at the State Department," the RNC's Deputy Communications Director, Raj Shah, said in a statement to ABC News. "Such records might shed light on his role in setting up Clinton's server, and why he was granted immunity by the FBI. But it seems that his emails were either destroyed or never turned over, adding yet another layer to the secrecy surrounding his role."

The State Department also pointed out that the Politico newspaper has previously reported<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/hillary-clinton-bryan-pagliano-emails-state-department-216679>that Pagliano's emails were unavailable.

It's unclear why the State Department does not have his email records for the time her served as her IT director or whether or not he purposefully withheld them.

When Clinton's emails were published on the State Department's public reading room, only one email of his surfaced. It was a happy birthday<https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_NovWeb/306/DOC_0C05796719/C05796719.pdf> message from his private email account to hers. She forwarded it to another staffer instructing him to "pls respond."

Lauren Hendricks

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America Rising PAC Tweet
5/9/16 4:10 PM
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.@AP<https://twitter.com/AP/> Reports: "State Dept. says it has no emails from ex-@HillaryClinton<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/> staffer" apne.ws/1OkFeSC<https://t.co/61DLheWjwJ>

Lauren Hendricks

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Sean Spicer Tweet
5/9/16 3:36 PM
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so State Dept says there r no records of any emails on the guy who installed @HillaryClinton<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/> illegal secret server bigstory.ap.org/article/4229c6...<https://t.co/tnBqrSDRtr>

Lauren Hendricks

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Sean Spicer Tweet
5/9/16 3:33 PM
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#breaking<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23breaking> State Dept Says It Has No Emails From Ex- @HilllaryClinton<https://twitter.com/HilllaryClinton/> Staffer via @AP<https://twitter.com/AP/> bigstory.ap.org/article/4229c6...<https://t.co/tnBqrSmgBT>

Lauren Hendricks

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RNC Research Tweet
5/9/16 2:58 PM
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VIDEO: State Dept. Acknowledges It Has Zero Bryan Pagliano Emails From Clinton's Tenure youtu.be/A-6Eru10HAs<https://t.co/KTOzHRhWsK>

Lauren Hendricks

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Raj Shah Tweet
5/9/16 2:56 PM
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VIDEO: @StateDept<https://twitter.com/StateDept/> Acknowledges It Has Zero Bryan Pagliano Emails From Clinton's Tenure youtu.be/A-6Eru10HAs<https://t.co/LIbks0dKLh>

Lauren Hendricks

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Subject: RE: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC

Raj Shah Tweet
5/9/16 2:50 PM
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.@AP<https://twitter.com/AP/>: State Dept says it has no emails from ex-Clinton staffer bigstory.ap.org/article/4229c6...<https://t.co/nmSwqOXn4a>

Lauren Hendricks

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RNC Tweet
5/9/16 2:20 PM
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BREAKING: State Dept says it has no emails from ex-Hillary Clinton staffer who managed her secret server apne.ws/21Pjiqn<https://t.co/MkD8cb1Gp0>

Lauren Hendricks

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Michael C. Short Tweet
5/9/16 2:07 PM
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AP: @StateDept<https://twitter.com/StateDept/> says it has no emails from ex-Clinton staffer apne.ws/1NordZd<https://t.co/EpF7h4cGgN>
State Dept says it has no emails from ex-Clinton staffer<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4229c6fe7d6f4c35b79910b3e068905f/state-dept-says-it-has-no-emails-ex-clinton-staffer>
By STEPHEN BRAUN<http://bigstory.ap.org/content/stephen-braun>
May. 9, 2016 1:44 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department says in a new court filing that it can find no emails to or from a former Hillary Clinton aide who worked for the agency and also managed Clinton's private computer server during her stint as secretary of state.

The revelation was in a filing Monday by government lawyers for the department in a response to a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee. The GOP group had sued over its public records request for all work-related emails sent to or received by Clinton's former aide, Bryan Pagliano, between 2009 and 2013, covering most of Clinton's tenure.

Pagliano was offered immunity by the Justice Department in its continuing investigation into Clinton's server and emails and whether they violated national security laws.

Lauren Hendricks