The State Department is investigating some of the questions raised in a Daily Caller article published this week which revealed that one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, Huma Abedin, rejected the idea of the then-secretary of state using a government-issued Blackberry, an agency spokesman indicated Thursday.

Mark Toner declined during a daily press briefing to answer a reporter’s questions about the article, saying that there are “other investigations” and “reviews looking at some of these questions.”

Emails released to The DC in response to a FOIA lawsuit showed that in an Aug. 2011 email chain Stephen Mull, the State Department’s executive secretary at the time, wrote that Clinton had asked for a department-issued Blackberry to replace her malfunctioning personal unit. The Blackberry would be able to “mask [Clinton’s] identity,” Mull said, but cautioned that it would be “subject to FOIA requests.”

But as the email traffic shows, the idea was vetoed by Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the time and the vice chair of her presidential campaign.

“Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” Abedin wrote.

On Thursday, a reporter asked Toner about the emails and about the decision to not provide Clinton a government-issued Blackberry.

“Why from an institutional point of view would it not make sense for the secretary of state to have an official Blackberry from the State Department … with a state.gov email address that was believed to be more reliable than the personal email address that the former secretary was using?” he asked.

“You’re probably not going to be satisfied with my answer,” Toner responded, noting that he was aware of the article and the emails.

Read the article “State Department Hints at Investigation into Hillary’s Blackberry Decision” on dailycaller.com.