Wow. Many interesting bits:
*"The State Department was able to search and produce Clinton’s emails when needed long before, and unrelated to, receiving the printed copies as they were already captured on state.gov accounts,” the “fact sheet” also states.
But Lang told Judicial Watch that the State Department collects records from the custodian of the records, or the person that sends or receives them. That means that there was little chance — given that Clinton used a personal email account — that FOIAs seeking her emails would have been detected by Lang’s bureau.
Several FOIA requests for Clinton’s emails were filed during her tenure as secretary of state. But all were rejected because the responsive records could not be located.
Lang’s statements boiled down to a claim of “we didn’t know what we didn’t know.”
*"Lang revealed that Clarence Finney, the director of the Correspondence and Records offices, which oversees FOIA requests, inquired about Clinton’s email practices in 2011 after seeing a now-iconic photo of the then-secretary of state wearing sunglasses while using her BlackBerry.
“When Mrs. Clinton’s photo appeared in the media with her using — appearing to use some sort of a mobile device, Clarence Finney checked with [the staff with the Executive Secretariat’s Information Resource Management division] to confirm…whether the answer was still that she did not have a State.gov e-mail account,” Lang said.
Lang had testified that Finney had been informed in late 2008 or early 2009, when Clinton was transitioning into her role, that she would not be using a government email account.
After seeing the picture of Clinton using her BlackBerry, Finney seemingly questioned whether she had changed her practices. After being told that Clinton was still not using a government email account, Finney — who will be deposed by Judicial Watch later this month — appears not to have asked if she was using a personal email account."
*"Bentel has also refused to talk to Congress to discuss his knowledge about the server. He reportedly told the House Select Committee on Benghazi last year that he did not know about the server. But since then he has declined invitations from two Senate committees to discuss the setup.
His attorney is Randy Turk of the high-profile law firm Baker Bott. Turk represented Craig Livingston, a Bill Clinton White House official who was implicated in “FileGate,” a scandal which involved the mishandling of FBI files for hundreds of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan White House officials.
The Clintons arranged a legal defense fund for Livingstone, who was not charged in the case."