Subject: Hillary Clinton emails: Former spokesman turns over 20 boxes - POLITICO
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 20:29:19 -0400

Hillary Clinton emails: Former spokesman turns over 20 boxes - POLITICO

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Hillary Clinton's former spokesman turns over 20 boxes of emails
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Long-time Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines handed the State
Department 20 boxes of work-related emails taken in part from a personal
email account, State officials said Wednesday, calling into question the
extent to which top aides to the former secretary of state also engaged in
controversial email practices.

State Department top document official John Hackett, who heads Freedom of
Information Act requests for the agency, told a federal judge in a court
hearing Wednesday that Reines was among several officials asked to turn
over any any work-related documents in his possession.

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He handed over 20 boxes last night, according to a separate State lawyer
present at the hearing. The hearing involved a lawsuit filed by the
Associated Press that charges the agency with failing to respond to FOIA
requests.

Hackett also told the court that State couldn’t produce all of the
documents requested by the AP at this time — including one related to Huma
Abedin’s role as a “special government employee.” He said the agency is
still awaiting work-related emails from former agency officials Abedin,
Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills. Hackett did not say whether the documents
being sought were from a personal account or State.gov account.

The Reines revelations call into question the extent to which Clinton’s
aides relied on personal emails for official business, which goes against
government record-keeping and transparency rules.

The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate has been criticized for
exclusively using personal email while serving as the nation’s lead
diplomat. Clinton’s use of a home-brewed server was unearthed after Hill
Republicans opened a special investigative panel to dig into the 2012
Benghazi, Libya terrorist attack. The Benghazi panel has also uncovered
instances where top aides seemed to be writing from a personal email
address.

Since then, Clinton has faced questions about her treatment of classified
information and her secrecy..

But the court hearing suggests such controversial practices may have
extended beyond her.

Reines did not respond to an emailed request for comment. But earlier this
year he took Gawker to task for publishing a story suggesting he used
personal email for work purposes..

Hackett said Reines sent over the document boxes with a cover letter,
suggesting they contained a hodgepodge of work related items also mixed
with personal messages.

To clarify, the judge asked Hackett if Reines was “asked to produce in his
personal email system, federal records… and he produced 20 boxes of emails
in his personal emails. Is that” your understanding?

Hackett said it was.
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