

Republicans have accused Clinton of seeking to avoid public disclosure of her emails on controversial issues, such as the Sept. This unusual arrangement - first detailed March 2 by the New York Times - triggered a political firestorm. Instead, she used a private server and email account. Tom Conte, a professor at the Schools of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the IEEE Computer Society, said Clinton’s explanation is “technically possible” and that our test “proves it.” most know by now, Clinton did not use the government email system while secretary of state. Our IT staff created and renamed it An email sent by printed out as if it had come from after we changed the name of the email account. We at also tested Clinton’s explanation.
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Tomlinson ran an optical character recognition on the PDF of the emails that the Times posted to its website, and what he found is consistent with the Clinton campaign’s explanation for what happened. The Clinton explanation passed two tests - including one conducted for us by Ray Tomlinson, the man who is widely credited with inventing email.

The emails displayed two accounts: and That seemed to clearly contradict Clinton’s claim that she used only while in office, which was from January 2009 to February 2013.īut the Clinton campaign says there is a simple explanation for this apparent discrepancy: The emails published by the Times were printed out in 2014 after Clinton had left the State Department and after she had changed her email address, so the printed copies of emails she sent while in office display her new address even though they were originally sent under her old address We agree that this is possible. The RNC made its claim in a May 18 blog post hours after the New York Times published copies of emails that Clinton had sent and received when she was secretary. The Republican National Committee thinks it has the smoking gun that proves Hillary Clinton used “multiple secret email addresses” as secretary of state.
