Mar. 24, 2016    Fred Lucas

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign staff have insisted that she did not use her private email address for official business until March 2009. However, on Thursday, an email between the then-secretary and her chief of staff from February 2009 surfaced.

The message between Clinton and her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, dated Feb. 13, 2009, was about Clinton’s BlackBerry and the security issues surrounding it. Government watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained the email through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

The Hillary Clinton campaign site, under the heading of “The Facts About Hillary Clinton’s Emails,” says:

On December 5, 2014, 30,490 copies of work or potentially work-related emails sent and received by Clinton from March 18, 2009, to February 1, 2013, were provided to the State Department. This totaled roughly 55,000 pages. More than 90% of her work or potentially work-related emails provided to the Department were already in the State Department’s record-keeping system because those e-mails were sent to or received by “state.gov” accounts.

In response to a court order in other Judicial Watch litigation, Clinton said in a statement under oath:

I, Hillary Rodham Clinton, declare under penalty of perjury that the following is true and correct:

1 While I do not know what information may be “responsive” for purposes of this lawsuit, I have directed that all my e-mails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records to be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.

2 As a result of my directive, approximately 55,000 pages of these emails were produced to the Department on December 5, 2014.

3 Cheryl Mills did not have an account on clintonemail.com. Huma Abedin did have such an account which was used at times for government business.