As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton expressed surprise that a State Department employee would use a personal email account for official business. | AP Photo Clinton surprised that State employee used personal email

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton expressed surprise that a staffer at the State Department was using his personal email address to conduct official business.

In an chain released early Friday as part of more than 3,000 pages of additional pages of emails from her time at Foggy Bottom for which she used her own homebrew server to conduct official business, Clinton emailed top adviser Jake Sullivan on Feb. 27, 2011 to inquire further about the biographical details of an employee.


The employee, John Godfrey, wrote a detailed summary about then-Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi and the state of the country that made its way to Sullivan, who then passed it along to his boss.

"Worth a read. This guy is very thoughtful," he wrote in the message, cc'ing top aide Huma Abedin in the chain. Clinton responded by asking who currently employed Godfrey.

"Us," Sullivan wrote.

In her response, Clinton asked: "Is he in NEA [Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs] currently? Or was he in Embassy?"

"I was surprised that he used personal email account if he is at State," Clinton mused.