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Hillary Clinton used a personal email account exclusively while serving as secretary of state, and may have violated federal requirements, the New York Times reported late Monday. According to the Times, Clinton did not have a government email address during her four years at the State Department, and her aides took no action to preserve her emails which is required by law under the Federal Records Act.
These new revelations raise questions about transparency, legality, and certainly security. It is not clear whether any encryption protection existed on her private email account, as is required on government emails.
Clinton's personal spokesman, Nick Merrill, issued a statement in response to the New York Times report.
"Like Secretaries of State before her, she used her own email account when engaging with any Department officials. For government business, she emailed them on their Department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained. When the Department asked former Secretaries last year for help ensuring their emails were in fact retained, we immediately said yes," the statement reads.
"Both the letter and spirit of the rules permitted State Department officials to use non-government email, as long as appropriate records were preserved. As a result of States request for our help to make sure they in fact were, that is what happened here. As the Department stated, it is in the process of updating its record preservation policies to bring them in line with its retention responsibilities."
In an effort to comply with federal record-keeping laws, aides to the former secretary of state turned over 55,000 emails to the State Department two months ago, according to the Times report.
"The State Department has long had access to a wide array of Secretary Clinton's records including emails between her and Department officials with state.gov accounts. Last year, the Department sent a letter to representatives of former secretaries of state requesting they submit any records in their possession for proper preservation as part of our effort to continually improve our records preservation and management," State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf told ABC News in a statement early Tuesday. "In response to our request, Secretary Clinton provided the Department with emails spanning her time at the Department. After the State Department reviewed those emails, last month the State Department produced about 300 emails responsive to recent requests from the Select Committee."
"From the moment that the Select Committee was created, the State Department has been proactively and consistently engaged in responding to the Committee's many requests in a timely manner, providing more than 40,000 pages of documents, scheduling more than 20 transcribed interviews and participating in several briefings and each of the Committee's hearings," the statement continued.
The State Department also says they are in the process of updating their records preservation policies to bring them up to speed with 2013 National Archives and Records Administration guidance. "These steps include regularly archiving all of Secretary Kerry's emails to ensure that we are capturing all federal records," Harf said.
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Hillary Clintons private e-mail address that she used while secretary of state reinforces everything people dont like about her, argues The Posts Chris Cillizza, and is very dangerous to her presidential ambitions. (The Washington Post)
Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private e-mail account for her official government business when she was secretary of state and did not routinely preserve and turn over those e-mails for government records collection, the State Department said Monday.
Clinton has turned over thousands of e-mails to the department from her private account, a step that was first reported by the New York Times late Monday. The private account came to light when the department sought records from Clinton and other former secretaries who have held the post during the e-mail age.
Some 300 of Clintons recovered e-mails were then turned over to a congressional committee investigating the 2012 deaths of four Americans at U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Last year, the Department sent a letter to representatives of former secretaries of state requesting they submit any records in their possession for proper preservation, Psaki said in a statement. In response to our request, Secretary Clinton provided the Department with e-mails spanning her time at the Department. After the State Department reviewed those e-mails, we produced about 300 e-mails responsive to recent requests from the Select Committee.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement Tuesday: Like secretariesof state before her, she used her own email account when engaging with any Department officials. For government business, she emailed them on their Department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has come under fire for using a personal e-mail account for all of her work messages. (Reuters)
Clinton immediately said yes when the State Department asked former secretaries last year for help preserving e-mail records, he said.
Both the letter and spirit of the rules permitted State Department officials to use non-government email, as long as appropriate records were preserved, Merrill said.
It was not clear why Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, created the private account. But the practice appears to bolster long-standing criticism that Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have not been transparent.
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By Perry Bacon Jr.
Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a non-government email account to send messages to her staff during her time as Secretary of State is a break from what other top officials have done, raising concerns from both Democrats and Republicans about the propriety of the practice.
Aides to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former President George W. Bush said neither official routinely sent e-mails to staffers while they held those posts. Rice "did not use her personal e-mail for official communication as Secretary" and instead exclusively used her State Department account, according to a top aide who did not want to be quoted publicly.
Attorney General Eric Holder regularly uses his government account, according to spokesman Brian Fallon, as does Valerie Jarrett, one of President Barack Obama's top advisers.
As Clinton aides have noted, Colin Powell did regularly use a personal e-mail account while Secretary of State.
A Powell aide confirmed that information, saying, "General Powell used a personal email account during his tenure as Secretary of State. He was not aware of any restrictions nor does he recall being made aware of any over the four years he served at State."
Other former office holders rarely used email accounts - personal or official - at all during their tenure.
"President Bush never used email in the White House. We only ever spoke on the phone or in person, or through memos, of course. I think it was the same at the Treasury Department, too. I never emailed with any of the three secretaries I worked with," said Tony Fratto, a former Deputy White House Press Secretary in the George W. Bush administration. Fratto is supporting Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential run.
"Everyone in government is wary of email," he added. "I'm surprised that Secretary Clinton used a personal account. I'm surprised she used email at all, to be honest. It's so hard to keep it secure."
Steve Clemons, a foreign policy expert at The Atlantic, said he has "never dealt with anyone at the highest levels of government who didn't have an official email address."
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WASHINGTON -- When Hillary Clinton traveled more than a million miles as Secretary of State, she famously carried her Blackberry with her.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Tuesday that Clinton's use of a personal email account --rather than a government account -- to conduct business was not illegal.
In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya.
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"There was no prohibition on using a non State.gov account for official business, as long as it is preserved," Harf said.
But Clinton aides did not submit those emails to government archives, as required by a 2009 law. They claim nine out ten emails she sent were to State Department colleagues and therefore in the department's computer system.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said there was "every expectation they would be retained."
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