Hillary Clinton's top aides also used personal email addresses

Hillary Clinton.
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Following the news that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's persistent use of a personal email account while in office may have violated federal transparency rules, Gawker reports that at least two of Clinton's top staffers used personal accounts for official business as well.

This revelation casts doubt on a previous statement from the Clinton camp that, "Like Secretaries of State before her, [Clinton] 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."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.