Psaki Won’t Say if State Dept. Looked at Clinton’s Email Policy

‘I would have you pose that to Secretary Clinton and her team’

MOHAMMED: “... I mean, I think it’s a relevant question.”
PSAKI: “I’m not saying it’s not relevant, but go ahead.”
MOHAMMED: “No, no. But I think it’s a question, I think it’s a relevant question to ask you.”
PSAKI: “OK.”
MOHAMMED: “And, your predecessor did indeed sometimes address things that happened, or policies that were adopted.”
PSAKI: “Sure, policies are a little bit different than email habits, but go ahead.”
MOHAMMED: “Yes, but there policies—or apparently sometimes not— about email habits. The question that I had is whether the State Department looked at whether Secretary Clinton’s, former Secretary Clinton’s assumption, that her emails to state.gov addresses would be captured for archival proposes and said, ‘Yes, that’s fine.’ Or, ‘No, actually, we don’t keep all that stuff automatically and it requires on the recipient to archive it.’ Or—I mean, did you guys look at — did the State Department, institutionally, looked at her proposed policy to use a personal email under the assumption that emails to official addresses would be captured, and say, ‘Yes, that’s fine,’ or, ‘No, that’s not fine.’”
PSAKI: “I’m just not in a position to speak to conversation that may have taken place six years ago, Arshad.”
MOHAMMED: “Did they looked at that at all?”
PSAKI: “I just don’t have more information for you.”
MOHAMMED: “But you don’t have more — you don’t have more information for me. You may have the answer, but you just don’t want to say it publicly, or you don’t have the answer?”
PSAKI: “I don’t have more information for you on a conversation that may or may not have taken place six years ago, Arshad—“ 
MOHAMMED: “But—“
PSAKI: “—I would have you pose that to Secretary Clinton and her team.”
MOHAMMED: “But why is it not a relevant question to ask the State Department which after all has institutional interest in complying with laws and regulations and maintaining the historical record—“
PSAKI: “Of course we do. And that’s why we have taken steps like sending the letter to former secretaries. We also sent a letter recently to former staff asking that if they become aware — or are aware or in the future become aware of a federal record in their possession, such as emails, sent or received on a personal email account while serving in their official capacity at the department, that such record be made available to the department. So of course we have taken steps in order to make sure as much information is archived as possible.”
MOHAMMED: “Do you know whether or not there was any effort on the part of the State Department as an institution, presumably by the legal advisers office — although, this is something that comes under management, I don’t know — to look at proposed email practices and make a decision on whether they were appropriate given the existing polices and statute.”
PSAKI: “I certainly understand your question. I don’t have more information on whether a conversation may or may not have taken place six years ago. I don’t know that I will.” 

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