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Hillary Clinton aide appears to have had access to her email account

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Benjamin Snyder
Benjamin Snyder
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September 30, 2015, 6:12 PM ET
Hillary Rodham Clinton
FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya. It’s a photo that became an Internet meme: Hillary Rodham Clinton, wearing sunglasses, staring at her BlackBerry. Now it’s becoming a focal point for Republicans on the House committee that’s investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The chairman, South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy, wants to know why the panel has no emails from the day the photo was taken as Clinton, then the secretary of state, was en route to Tripoli. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool, File)Photograph by Kevin Lamarque — AP

In the latest batch of released emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private account, it appears that her longtime aide Huma Abedin messaged from the address on at least one occasion, according to the Guardian.

In a message dated November 11, 2o10, Abedin appears to have sent a message to Clinton foreign policy aide Jake Sullivan on behalf of Clinton. “Hey it’s Huma. She can’t talk right now. She will call when she gets in car. What flight u [sic] on? Can u email me on other email?”

So it appears that Huma had access to — and at times was using — Hillary Clinton’s personal email account. pic.twitter.com/5j7RcqDcaG

— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 30, 2015

In another email, things get sticky when current CEO of the New America Foundation emailed Clinton to aide Cheryl Mills discussed that “NO ONE” uses a “State-issued laptop” due to “antiquated” technology.

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/649326089567907842

On a more positive note, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg emailed Mills and Clinton to praise the Secretary of State for being a role model and to invite her to a dinner. Sandberg, a vocal supporter of hers, even made mention of Fortune. In an email dated February 16, 2011, Sandberg mentioned a 2008 story by Fortune’s Pattie Sellers about her Women of Silicon Valley events. You can read the full letter here.

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Prior to rejoining Fortune, he was a managing editor at Business Insider and has worked as an editor for Bloomberg, LinkedIn and CNBC, covering leadership stories, sports business, careers and business news. He started his career as a breaking news reporter at Fortune in 2014.

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