Six Obama administration officials used alias email addresses, including then-Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.
Whether connected to a government network or not, it is unusual for government officials to use an email alias.
Obama used an alias email address to communicate with his secretary of state, two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The State Department has refused to make public that and other emails Clinton exchanged with Obama.
It's been known since last year that Obama and Clinton corresponded occasionally via her private account, but the White House has insisted Obama did not know she relied on it routinely and exclusively for official business.
The private network allowed Clinton, Abedin, and aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan to swap emails with the Clinton Foundation, various world leaders, and Doug Band's global consulting firm Teneo Holdings, where Abedin also worked during her time at the State Department.
The FBI investigation began with one simple premise: that Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act of 1913 by allowing national defense information to be "Lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed" through "Gross negligence." Clinton team emails have now ended up in the hands of Julian Assange - a man who lives sequestered in an Ecuadorian embassy - and in the hands of detectives in the Anthony Weiner sexting case.
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