The State Department says it did NOT withhold key email from the FOIA response,

[karynnj]

23. BLM because only right wing sources are covering this at all -- only right wing sources

are covering the State Department explanation. Even before the SD correction, the RW sources noted that there was no November 14th response with email -- and they then, with no proof, suggested that this should have been September 2014. The point is that JW itself knew the November date was wrong. Moving the date forward aids their claim that it was done to cover up.

This ignores that had the email address been the problem, they could have just redacted it - replacing it with HILLARY CLINTON. This is what they did for many other private email accounts in the release. Had they done that, I doubt it would have raised any red flags. It would not have suggested ALL her email was on a private server - just that this one piece of email went to a private account - if anyone would have thought anything at all.

It has to be frustrating that there is this flare up and interesting to thing how did the screwup happen. The State Department is referring to it as a low level clerical error. I suspect that the wrong date reflected something, though obviously not when they should have released it. I wonder if the November 14 date might be the date that the State Department received the many boxes of Clinton emails. That would fit the time line - as it is referred to as the end of the year after the SD asked in spring and then publicly asked in October for the email.

From memory, the first thing the SD did with the email, even as they processed them to get them on the computer, was to find all the one related with Benghazi etc to respond to Congressional inquiries and the FOIA requests. The new date, in June 2015, would make sense. Here, someone recently second guessed NOT releasing this due to it being privileged as internal conversation.

The real question may end up should the SD have gone public a year before March 2015 with the fact that Hillary Clinton had run her email on a private server and had NOT given them the work emails when she left. If it goes there, it shows how disastrous Clinton's choice was to Obama. If it comes to that, I will never forgive her and it will be a huge negative (for me) no matter what she accomplishes as President.