STATEMENT FOR YOUR APPROVAL

From:pir@hrcoffice.com To: hdr29@hrcoffice.com CC: Cheryl.mills@gmail.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, robbymook2015@gmail.com, huma@hrcoffice.com, nmerrill@hrcoffice.com Date: 2015-03-07 18:44 Subject: STATEMENT FOR YOUR APPROVAL

I have asked the State Department to make public the nearly 55,000 pages of my government-related emails that we gave to the Department last year. I do hope that when the Department makes my emails available to the public, what’s in them will answer questions that have been raised and show how hard everyone at the Department of State was working for this country. I have always preferred in-person or telephone conversations, which are more collaborative and personal, but over time I have learned that email is sometimes an efficient way to communicate quickly, or even at all, and in the Senate I began to use email regularly. When I got to work as Secretary of State, I wanted the simplicity of using one device. I opted to use my personal email account; it enabled me to reach people quickly and keep in regular touch with my family and friends more easily, given my travel schedule. My own usage was widely known, as my address was visible on every email I sent. To address requirements to keep records of my work emails, it was my practice to email government employees at their government email address. That way, they would be captured and preserved in the Department's system. Looking back, it would have been better if I had used a state.gov account and carried two devices instead of opting for the convenience of one Blackberry with one account. Late October 2014, 21 months after I left office, I received a request from the Department for copies of my work-related emails. My team reviewed my entire email account and identified nearly 55,000 pages of emails that were in any related to work. In early December, they were all provided to the State Department, and it is these emails that I have asked the Department to make available to the public. While I provided hard copies of my work email, nearly all of them were available on the state.gov system. That is why my emails were provided to Congress last summer in response to Congressional requests, long before the hard copies were requested by the Department. I know there have been reasonable questions about all of this, along with more than a little confusion, so I am also sharing a detailed set of answers with the best information we could gather in one place. Finally, let me say again that when all is said and done and everyone is able to read the emails, I want the public to see the great work we did at State that I am so proud of. ###