Hillary Clinton may have dodged State Department records with personal email

published 4 March 2015

On Tuesday, The New York Times revealed that Hillary Clinton used a personal email address during her time as secretary of state. Now, the Times reports that Clinton's lack of a government email address allowed her to avoid record requests from the State Department.

Department officials confirmed that since Clinton had used a personal email, it wasn't subject to searches. Clinton gave the department 50,000 pages of emails she sent from her personal account, but some worry it did not include all of the information from her tenure. The Times reports that the State Department will search Clinton's provided emails, at congressional requests.

"Very specific guidance has been given to agencies all across the government, which is specifically that employees of the Obama administration should use their official email accounts when they’re conducting official government business," White House spokesman, Josh Earnest told the Times. "However, when there are situations where personal email accounts are used, it is important for those records to be preserved consistent with the Federal Records Act."