Clinton didn’t know how to access e-mail by computer, says State official

Hillary Clinton did not know how to use a computer to read and send e-mails when she entered office as the nation's top diplomat in 2009. She only knew how to read her messages via BlackBerry, according to an official at the time. Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, told State Department official Lewis Lukens that there could be a “problem,” because Clinton “does not know how to use a computer to do e-mail — only [Blackberry],” he wrote in a 2009 e-mail released on Feb 1. “But I said [it] would not take much training to get her up to speed," he claimed.

It’s unclear whether Clinton was ever trained to use a computer to access e-mails. However, the admission might bolster the argument that e-mails were not her main means of communication, despite the heavy focus on her use of a private e-mail account and server for official State business. Lukens’s message was contained within an e-mail chain in which the State Department tried to explore options for setting up a "standalone" computer in Clinton’s office which operated off of the State Department’s network.