The State Department is declining to give the House Oversight Committee any email messages as part of the panel’s investigation into eight deleted minutes from a 2013 press briefing video.
None of the messages discovered by the department were believed to be relevant to the 2013 episode, Mark Toner told reporters on Thursday.
“We have gone through the emails, but I don’t think we thought it was necessary to share those documents with the committee at this time,” he said.
“We didn’t find any documents and we’re not going to just hand over all the emails that … aren’t relevant.”
The comments suggest that the State Department had finished its review of employees’ email messages as part of the internal search to find the culprit who ordered the video to be snipped, but came up empty-handed. The department reopened the informal investigation this week, following orders from Secretary of State John Kerry.
As part of that review, the department is only looking at official email accounts, Toner said, and not employees’ personal messages.
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Any messages on those servers are property of the U.S. government, whether personal or not, relevant or not.
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