posted on Oct, 13 2016 @ 08:35 PM
The questions in question...The questions are:
Describe the creation of the clintonemail.com system, including who decided to create the system, the date it was decided to create the system, why it
was created, who set it up, and when it became operational.
Describe the creation of your clintonemail.com email account, including who decided to create it, when it was created, why it was created, and, if you
did not set up the account yourself, who set it up for you.
When did you decide to use a clintonemail.com email account to conduct official State Department business and whom did you consult in making this
decision?
Identify all communications in which you participated concerning or relating to your decision to use a clintonemail.com email account to conduct
official State Department business and, for each communication, identify the time, date, place, manner (e.g., in person, in writing, by telephone, or
by electronic or other means), persons present or participating, and content of the communication.
In a 60 Minutes interview aired on July 24, 2016, you stated that it was “recommended” you use a personal email account to conduct official State
Department business. What recommendations were you given about using or not using a personal email account to conduct official State Department
business, who made any such recommendations, and when were any such recommendations made?
Were you ever advised, cautioned, or warned, was it ever suggested, or did you ever participate in any communication, conversation, or meeting in
which it was discussed that your use of a clintonemail.com email account to conduct official State Department business conflicted with or violated
federal recordkeeping laws. For each instance in which you were so advised, cautioned or warned, in which such a suggestion was made, or in which such
a discussion took place, identify the time, date, place, manner (e.g., in person, in writing, by telephone, or by electronic or other means), persons
present or participating, and content of the advice, caution, warning, suggestion, or discussion.
Your campaign website states, “When Clinton got to the Department, she opted to use her personal email account as a matter of convenience.” What
factors other than convenience did you consider in deciding to use a personal email account to conduct official State Department business? Include in
your answer whether you considered federal records management and preservation requirements and how email you used to conduct official State
Department business would be searched in response to FOIA requests.
After President Obama nominated you to be Secretary of State and during your tenure as secretary, did you expect the State Department to receive FOIA
requests for or concerning your email?
During your tenure as Secretary of State, did you understand that email you sent or received in the course of conducting official State Department
business was subject to FOIA?
During your tenure as Secretary of State, how did you manage and preserve emails in your clintonemail.com email account sent or received in the course
of conducting official State Department business, and what, if anything, did you do to make those emails available to the Department for conducting
searches in response to FOIA requests?
During your tenure as Secretary of State, what, if any, effort did you make to inform the State Department’s records management personnel (e.g.,
Clarence Finney or the Executive Secretariat’s Office of Correspondence and Records) about your use of a clintonemail.com email account to conduct
official State Department business?
During your tenure as Secretary of State, did State Department personnel ever request access to your clintonemail.com email account to search for
email responsive to a FOIA request? If so, identify the date access to your account was requested, the person or persons requesting access, and
whether access was granted or denied.
At the time you decided to use your clintonemail.com email account to conduct official State Department business, or at any time thereafter during
your tenure as Secretary of State, did you consider how emails you sent to or received from persons who did not have State Department email accounts
(i.e., “state.gov” accounts) would be maintained and preserved by the Department or searched by the Department in response to FOIA requests? If
so, what was your understanding about how such emails would be maintained, preserved, or searched by the Department in response to FOIA requests?
On March 6, 2009, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Eric J. Boswell wrote in an Information Memo to your Chief of Staff, Cheryl
Mills, that he “cannot stress too strongly, however, that any unclassified BlackBerry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly
monitoring conversations, retrieving email, and exploiting calendars.” A March 11, 2009 email states that, in a management meeting with the
assistant secretaries, you approached Assistant Secretary Boswell and mentioned that you had read the “IM” and that you “get it.” Did you
review the March 6, 2009 Information Memo, and, if so, why did you continue using an unclassified BlackBerry to access your clintonemail.com email
account to conduct official State Department business? Copies of the March 6, 2009 Information Memo and March 11, 2009 email are attached as Exhibit A
for your review.
In a November 13, 2010 email exchange with Huma Abedin about problems with your clintonemail.com email account, you wrote to Ms. Abedin, in response
to her suggestion that you use a State Department email account or release your email address to the Department, “Let’s get a separate address or
device.” Why did you continue using your clintonemail.com email account to conduct official State Department business after agreeing on November 13,
2010 to “get a separate address or device?” Include in your answer whether by “address” you meant an official State Department email account
(i.e., a “state.gov” account) and by “device” you meant a State Department-issued BlackBerry. A copy of the November 13, 2010 email exchange
with Ms. Abedin is attached as Exhibit B for your review.
Email exchanges among your top aides and assistants in August 30, 2011 discuss providing you with a State Department-issued BlackBerry or State
Department email address. In the course of these discussions, State Department Executive Secretary Stephen Mull wrote, “[W]e are working to provide
the Secretary per her request a Department issued BlackBerry to replace her personal unit which is malfunctioning (possibly because of her personal
email server is down). We will prepare two versions for her to use – one with an operating State Department email account (which would mask her
identity, but which would also be subject to FOIA requests).” Similarly, John Bentel, the Director of Information and Records Management in the
Executive Secretariat, wrote, “You should be aware that any email would go through the Department’s infrastructure and [be] subject to FOIA
searches.” Did you request a State Department issued Blackberry or a State Department email account in or around August 2011, and, if so, why did
you continue using your personal device and clintonemail.com email account to conduct official State Department business instead of replacing your
device and account with a State Department-issued BlackBerry or a State Department email account? Include in