[Daily Caller] In the very early days of Hillary Clinton's tenure at the State Department, top agency officials signed off on a plan to allow the then-secretary of state to use a "stand-alone PC" set up on a non-departmental computer network system so that she could check her personal email account.The emails, which were obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch through a lawsuit, are the first to show how the State Department decided to allow Clinton to avoid using a state.gov email account.
In the email chain, dated Jan. 23-24, 2009, Clinton's chief of staff Cheryl Mills asks Lewis Lukens, the former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the secretariat, about her and Clinton's use of Blackberries and about accessing email through a "non-DOS [Department of State] computer."
She also told Lukens that she spoke to someone else at State about "setting up Counselor office for HRC so she can go across hall regularly and check her email."