Just before Clinton sat down for a 105-minute meeting with the Register`s editorial board, the Washington Post posted a news story that said the State Department`s request for her emails was "prompted entirely by the discovery that Clinton had exclusively used a private e-mail system."
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That contradicts what Clinton has been saying, which is that agency officials asked her for her emails as part of a benign, general record-keeping effort to sweep up "everything from other secretaries of state, not just me," as she said Sunday.
After the editorial board meeting, a Register reporter asked Clinton if she could explain the discrepancy between her characterization of why she turned over the emails and the State Department`s.
"I don`t know that. I can`t answer that," Clinton answered. "All I know is that they sent the same letter to everybody. That`s my understanding."
The Register told Clinton that the Post was reporting that State Department officials contacted her in the summer of 2014 — a sign that officials had been caught off guard upon discovering she had used a private server to conduct government business. That was at least three months before the agency asked Clinton and three of her predecessors to provide their emails, the Post reported.
"You`re telling me something I don`t know," Clinton said. "All I know is what I have said. What I have said is it was allowed. The State Department has confirmed that. The same letter went to, as far as I know, my predecessors, and I`m the one who said, `Hey, I`ll be glad to help.`
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