Defense Dept. Officials Discover Undisclosed Hillary Clinton Emails

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton listens during a roundtable discussion on home care, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Defense Department officials uncovered an email chain between Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and retired Gen. David Petraeus that was not turned over to the State Department along with Clinton’s other work-related correspondence, The Associated Press reported Friday.

Anonymous officials told the AP that the email chain, which was related to personnel matters and did appear to contain classified material, began before Clinton took over as secretary of state and continued once she entered the office. The Defense Department discovered the emails and turned them over to the State Department’s inspector general, according to the report.

The email chain is significant because it pre-dates the time period from which Clinton’s office said she turned over work-related emails to the State Department.

Her office said Clinton turned over roughly 30,000 work-related emails sent and received from March 18, 2009 to February 1, 2013. But the email chain with Petraeus started on Jan. 10, 2009 on Clinton’s older AT&T Blackberry email account, according to the AP. The report stated Clinton switched to her private hdr22@clintonemail.com address by Jan. 28, a week after her swearing-in as secretary of state.

An anonymous Clinton aide confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Clinton did begin to use the private hdr22@clintonemail.com address in January 2009. The aide clarified that the domain was not housed on Clinton’s so-called “homebrew” server at her Chappaqua, New York home until March of that year, which is why the records Clinton provided to the State Department begin on March 18, 2009. Clinton does not have access to emails from before that date, the aide told BuzzFeed News.

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  1. Avatar for bdtex bdtex says:

    More “nothing to see here”. Of course,that won’t stop the Hillary haters among us,

  2. Avatar for rssrai rssrai says:

    This is old news. Clinton has already come out and said that these emails were not on her server and was stored somewhere else. She couldn’t have saved them if she didn’t have them.

  3. Avatar for chammy chammy says:

    I am still wondering what the “big” deal is about these emails.

  4. So the Benghazi attack was in September 2012, and the Libyan uprising began in winter 2011, and we need to know about Hillary’s emails from January 2009 because… why?

  5. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    You found mail on the mail server…

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