The Department of Defense has uncovered a previously undisclosed email chain between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and retired Gen. David Petraeus.
That doesn't sound like a big deal, but the e-mails cast doubt on Clinton's assertion that she had turned over all work-related correspondence that moved across the private email server she used during her tenure at the State Department.
"Republicans have raised questions about thousands of emails that she has deleted on grounds that they were private in nature, as well as other messages that have surfaced independently of Clinton and the State Department. Speaking of her emails on CBS' 'Face the Nation' this week, Clinton said: 'We provided all of them.' But the FBI and several congressional committees are investigating. "The State Department's record of Clinton emails begins on March 18, 2009 — almost two months after she entered office. Before then, Clinton has said she used an old AT&T; Blackberry email account, the contents of which she no longer can access. "The Petraeus emails, first discovered by the Defense Department and then passed to the State Department's inspector general, challenge that claim. They start on Jan. 10, 2009, with Clinton using the older email account. But by Jan. 28 — a week after her swearing in — she switched to using the private email address on a homebrew server that she would rely on for the rest of her tenure. There are less than 10 emails back and forth in total, officials said, and the chain ends on Feb. 1."
In a statement, State Department Spokesperson John Kirby acknowledged the receipt of the email correspondence.
He said that the emails could now be subject to public disclosure and that they will be included in a probe looking at whether the State Department mishandled classified information.
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