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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year. The documents also show that one key State Department official did not want a written record of issues about the Clinton emails. The documents also raise new questions about the accuracy of representations made to Judicial Watch, the courts, Congress, and the public by the Obama administration and Clinton.

The documents were produced under court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Judicial Watch filed on May 6, 2015 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). The lawsuit was filed after the Obama State Department violated federal law and failed to respond to two separate FOIA requests, including a request for records about the actual production of the emails records by Clinton to the State Department.

The first batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch contains a heavily redacted email from State Department official Eric F. Stein to Margaret P. Grafeld, dated April 21, 2015, with the subject "HRC Emails." Stein is deputy director of global information systems at the State Department and Grafeld is deputy assistant secretary of global information systems. Stein reports to Grafeld that the "gaps" in Clinton's emails include:

• Jan. 21 – March 17, 2009 (Received Messages)
   
• Jan. 21 – April 12, 2009 (Sent Messages)
   
• Dec. 30, 2012 – Feb. 1, 2013 (Sent Messages)

In addition, Stein notes Clinton's employment timeline as follows:

• Secretary Hillary Clinton
   
• Appointed: January 21, 2009
   
• Entry on Duty: January 21, 2009
   
• Termination of Appointment: February 1, 2013

The email also contains a chart detailing the first and last emails both sent and received to Clinton's email address, as documented in the records turned over by Clinton's lawyers. This chart, information from which is chopped off, reveals a non-state.gov email address Cheryl Mills evidently used to conduct government business. The email address, "cherylmills@gmail.com," received the last email the State Department currently has from the Clinton's non-state.gov account.

The chart shows a significant email gap lasting 40 days before Miguel Rodriguez, with the email address "Miguel_Rodriguez @clinton.senate.gov," sends Clinton's account an email on March 18, 2009. Rodriguez worked in the Clinton State Department and is now a private attorney representing Clinton aide and confidante Huma Abedin in Clinton email-related litigation. This "email gap" information was forwarded to other top officials in the State Department, including Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy.

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