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Federal officials voiced growing alarm over Clinton’s compliance with records laws, documents show
Over a five-year span, senior officials at the National Archives and Records Administrations (NARA) voiced growing alarm about Hillary Clinton’s record-keeping practices as secretary of state, according to internal documents shared with Fox News.
During Clinton’s final days in office, Paul Wester, the director of Modern Records Programs at NARA – essentially the agency’s chief records custodian – privately emailed five NARA colleagues to confide his fear that Clinton would take her official records with her when she left office, in violation of federal statutes.
Over a five-year span, senior officials at the National Archives and Records Administrations (NARA) voiced growing alarm about Hillary Clinton’s record-keeping practices as secretary of state, according to internal documents shared with Fox News.
During Clinton’s final days in office, Paul Wester, the director of Modern Records Programs at NARA – essentially the agency’s chief records custodian – privately emailed five NARA colleagues to confide his fear that Clinton would take her official records with her when she left office, in violation of federal statutes.
NARA repeatedly expressed concern internally regarding Clinton's secretiveness, but did little to nothing overtly to assure she complied with the law. However, when New York Times reporter Mike Schmidt was working on breaking the Clinton email story and approached NARA about an interview, top officials were quick to agree.
Imagine aggressive librarians. Not working, huh? That explains why the story festered beneath the surface for five years.