Lost e-mails from Clinton server discovered

Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server dating back to the first days of her tenure as Secretary of State. The previously undisclosed February 2009 e-mails between Clinton from her then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, raise new questions about the scope of e-mails from Clinton’s early days in office that were not handed over to the State Department for recordkeeping and may have been lost entirely.

Clinton’s presidential campaign has previously claimed that the former top diplomat did not use her personal "clintonemail.com" account before March 2009, weeks after she was sworn in as secretary of State. But on March 24, the watchdog group Judicial Watch released one message from Feb. 13, 2009, in which Mills communicated with Clinton on the account to discuss the National Security Agency’s (NSA) efforts to produce a secure BlackBerry device for her to use as secretary of State. The discovery is likely to renew questions about Clinton’s narrative about her use of the private e-mail server, which has come under scrutiny. In 2015, news organizations reported that Obama Administration officials had discovered an e-mail chain between Clinton and retired Gen David Petraeus that began before Clinton entered office and continued through to Feb. 1. The chain of e-mails began on an earlier e-mail system that Clinton used while serving in the Senate, but was reportedly transferred on to the clintonemail.com server.