Top State Department Record-Keeper Says He Warned Clinton Team on Emails

Secretary of State-designate and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) looks at her BlackBerry while on an elevator at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 7, 2009. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—Former Department of State Director of Information Programs and Services (IPS) John Hackett warned key Hillary Clinton aides about their failure to preserve official business emails on her private server, Judicial Watch announced July 2.

“Well, we heard that there were 50,000 or 60,000 emails, and that they had—‘they’ being the secretary’s team—had culled out 30,000 of these,” Hackett told Judicial Watch during a recent deposition.