First, the State Department Office of Inspector General made no such request. The IG report, however, said that Powell’s representative told the State Department in 2015 that he did not retain any work-related emails. So Powell was “asked to provide whatever e-mails he retained,” and he responded.
As for the request to “work with the private provider of those emails” to recover them, the State Department – not the independent IG –
did not specifically direct Powell’s office to respond, saying only to forward work-related emails to the department “if you do recover any such emails.”
For more read “Partisan Spin on Clinton’s Emails”
