Hillary Clinton only used a personal email account while serving as secretary of state in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013, State Department officials told The New York Times.
“Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department,” Michael Schmidt reports. “Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.”
When the State Department asked for records, Clinton’s advisers handed over 55,000 pages of emails after they reportedly “decided which ones to turn over.” Clinton’s team also handed over about 900 pages regarding the September 11, 2012 attack on the US consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya.
Other politicians and ex-politicians are known to use personal email, though Clinton’s sensitive diplomatic activity would make her a heightened target for espionage. The Times notes that it is unclear what encryption or other security measures Clinton may have used on her private email account.
Phillip Bump of The Washington Post reports that leaked emails from Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal apparently showed Blumenthal “communicating with an account that appeared to belong to Clinton at the ‘clintonemail.com’ domain.” The Post reports that “clintonemail.com” was created a week before Obama was sworn into office… see more
source: businessinsider
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