State Department: Hillary decides what emails we can see
“Will any attempt be made to check whether these are all the emails, or will you just be accepting the secretary’s word on this?” asked a reporter.
“Well, as we have said, her staff has said these were all the responsive emails they had to our request, and that’s really a question for her staff to answer,” Harf said.
“Well, no, no,” said the reporter. “My question is: Will the State Department be attempting in any way to verify whether they are all the emails? I mean, what I imagine is there are various methods you can use to look at whether they’re in sequence or whether there are gaps. I mean, will there be any attempt to verify this?”
Harf didn’t have an answer. “Well, a couple points,” she said. “First, as I’ve said, it covers the breadth of her time at the State Department. So it covers the span of when she was here. But — ”
“The request does, but — ” the reporter interjected.
“No, the records in response cover — the emails she gave us back cover the breadth of her time at the State Department.”
“How do you know that? How do you know they’re all — ”
“Because I know when she started and when she left,” Harf said, “and they correspond to that and they cover all of the time in between.”
Reporters were still skeptical. “But you don’t know that there’s gaps or deleted emails or some that just weren’t sent,” one said.
“Well, of course,” Harf conceded. “But like — there’s not, like, two months missing, right?”
“But you don’t — you can’t say for sure.”
“Correct,” Harf said.
