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FOIA News: Emails: Hillary Clinton aides sought non-State PC for private account

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Emails: Hillary Clinton aides sought non-State PC for private account

CBS News, Feb. 1, 2016

Emails released to conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch suggest that while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the State Department planned to accommodate her private email server by setting up a separate computer network in an office "across [the] hall." The arrangement was made after Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, asked about accessing web email "using a non-DOS [Department of State] computer."

Judicial Watch obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit requesting information about Clinton's private email server.

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