Hillary Clinton knew all along that using a private e-mail server as a government official could be a problem.
Clinton has been has claiming for months that she did nothing wrong by setting up a private email server in her Westchester home while serving as Secretary of State.
But a new batch of her emails released Friday at 1:39 a.m. shows that Clinton raised questions five years ago when a State Department employee’s note about developments in Libya was relayed to her from his private email account.
In the February 2011 message, an employee named John Godfrey wrote a detailed summary about Libyan dictator Mohammar Khadafy that was forwarded to Clinton.
Clinton aide Jake Sullivan relayed it to Clinton saying, “Worth a read. This guy is very thoughtful.”
When Clinton noticed Godfrey was using a personal email account, she responded by asking for whom Godfrey works.
“Us,” Sullivan wrote back.
“Is he in NEA [Near Eastern Affairs] currently? Or was he in Embassy? I was surprised that he used personal email account if he is at State,” Clinton said on Feb. 27, 2011.
Both Clinton and the State Department have repeatedly insisted that she didn’t violate policies by using a private email server.
“I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two,” Clinton said in March 2015.
Eighty-two percent of Clinton’s emails have been made public by the State Department under court order.
The next and last batch is scheduled to be released at the end of the month.
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