Clinton Staffer Says Email Format Caused Miscue

Problems related to Hillary Clinton’s private email setup got in the way of State Department business on at least one occasion, prompting the then-secretary of state to miss a call with a foreign government official, a top Clinton aide testified under oath this week. The aide, Huma Abedin, questioned as part of a public records lawsuit brought by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, said she and her boss were “frustrated” by the episode in which Clinton’s email messages were being blocked by spam filters. As a result, Abedin recommended that Clinton consider getting a government email account that she could use alongside the personal system –an alternative that Abedin said was never implemented. “She wasn’t able to do her job, do what she needed to do,” Abedin said, according to a deposition transcript released Wednesday. Abedin’s testimony came amid a stream of other revelations regarding Clinton’s emails that have continued to dog the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as she tries to put the controversy to rest. Using a private email server for official and personal business was Clinton’s decision, Abedin said, according to the transcript. Abedin answered questions during a 5 1/2-hour deposition Tuesday at her attorneys’ law firm. Abedin, Clinton’s then-deputy chief of staff as secretary and now vice chair of her Democratic presidential campaign, told lawyers with Judicial Watch that, to her knowledge, Clinton never had an official account during her time in the Senate nor a 2008 presidential campaign account. “From my understanding, I just saw it as continue doing what she was doing before she arrived at the State Department” and served from 2009 to 2013, Abedin said.

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