#SUNGLASSES INSIDE THE OFFICE MEME ARCHIVE#
Lang also testified that when the initial search for employment records related to Abedin was done, State did not search Abedin's email archive or anyone else's. "They were not aware of the existence of e-mails from the former Secretary that could be potentially responsive to this request." "No one engaged in this FOIA search had awareness of that source of potentially responsive documents during the time period of this FOIA search," Lang said. Under questioning from Judicial Watch lawyer Michael Bekesha, Lang said the personnel in charge of searching for records in Clinton's office were not aware during her tenure and for at least a year after she left that she used a private email account for work-related communications, even though dozens of senior officials corresponded with her at the private address. State designated Lang as that witness and arranged the testimony at a Justice Department office in Washington. In the suit at issue, the group has requested testimony from several current and former State officials, as well as a generic witness to offer testimony on behalf of the agency. The sworn testimony took place by court order in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch seeking records about employment arrangements of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Lang said Finney was told at the outset of Clinton's tenure as secretary that, "like her predecessor, would not use an official account." The follow-up question prompted by the photo elicited the same answer, that Clinton "still did not have a account," Lang added.įinney can't recall who told him in 2008 or 2009 that Clinton did not plan to use official email, or who confirmed her continued lack of an account a few years later, Lang said. whether the answer was still that she did not have a e-mail account," State Director of Executive Secretariat Staff Karin Lang said. Clinton's photo appeared in the media with her using - appearing to use some sort of a mobile device, Clarence Finney checked with to confirm.
The image went viral on social media in 2012, prompting a "Texts from Hillary" meme. An iconic photograph of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using her BlackBerry while wearing sunglasses on a military plane in 2011 prompted a recordkeeping official in her office to inquire about whether Clinton had been assigned a email address, the State Department disclosed this week.Ĭlarence Finney, who oversaw an office responsible for Freedom of Information Act searches, raised the question about an official account after seeing the photo in the media, according to testimony at a deposition held Wednesday and released Thursday.
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