A federal judge said Thursday that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s unique email arrangement broke “government policy” and prodded the department to talk to the FBI about getting a look at the computer server and flash drives used to store her emails.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan was surprised the State Department hadn’t even made that request, and poked at the administration’s claim that the FBI needed to be left alone to conduct its investigation.
“We wouldn’t be here today had this employee followed government policy,” the judge said, casting doubt on the claim by Mrs. Clinton that she did nothing wrong when she set up her own email server at her home in New York and used it for all of her government business, and only belatedly returned 30,000 emails to the department.
The administration agreed to have the State Department and FBI work together on what documents may be available on the server and flash drive, but a Justice Department lawyer balked at requests from Judicial Watch, the plaintiffs suing to get records, that the government go back and look for backup tapes or try to find Mrs. Clinton’s old computer or BlackBerry.
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