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The email controversy in which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finds herself continues unabated. Even after last week’s hastily put together news conference has left even more questions unanswered.

Various news affiliates have been pressuring the U.S. State Department to find out if Hillary Clinton upon leaving the State Department, did she sign form 0F-109 which would require her to surrender all official documents to include emails before departing.

State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki was twisted in knots and never answered a basic question of did she sign the document or not.  Associated Press reporter Matt Lee pressed her on the subject.

MATT LEE, AP: Last week, I think a couple times you were asked about whether the department has a record of Secretary Clinton signing the separation form.

JEN PSAKI: I don’t have an update on this, Matt. We’re still working on it. I understand.

MATT LEE: There has to be a human resources department, they presumably have a file on every employee at the State Dept. It can’t be that difficult.

JEN PSAKI: I don’t think former secretaries are standard employees.

MATT LEE: They might not be but how hard could it be? How hard can it be to find out whether she did or not?

JEN PSAKI: I understand why you’re asking. We’re looking to get an answer. I don’t have an answer today.

MATT LEE: Do you know — where are these forms after they are signed? Where do they go?

JEN PSAKI: Where in the building do they go?

MATT LEE: If I asked for one from someone else.

JEN PSAKI: I’m not sure how many forms we’d be willing to give you access to. Hahaha.  We keep records. I don’t have an update on this particular question today. We keep records, yes…

MATT LEE: So if someone had signed one of these forms it would be on file somewhere?

JEN PSAKI: We do keep records, yes, it would be on file.

MATT LEE: Then I can’t understand why– whatever.

On Tuesday, Psaki stated that Secretary Clinton did not sign the form but neither did any of her predecessors, again this leaves still more unanswered question s. Why did not she, and if we believe the State Department, why did not her predecessors?

Former long-time Clinton ally James Carville while speaking on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” this Sunday did not help her cause and just added more fuel to the fire.  Carville admitted Clinton did set up a private account to frustrate congressional oversight which per the constitution is the role of Congress.

“It was something she did. It was legal. I suspect she didn’t want Louie Gohmert rifling through her emails. Which seems to me to be a kind of reasonable position for someone to take. It amounts to, just like everything else before it, it amounts to nothing a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing.”

The reference to Congressman Louis Gohmert by Carville, is alluding to the fact Gohmert Chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

The only way for this controversy to put behind Clinton she will have to be more transparent otherwise this will continue for some time.