Hillary Clinton has requested that the State Department make public the stash of emails from her private account that her aides vetted and turned over to the department last fall, but an unidentified senior State Department official told Reuters that "the review is likely to take several months given the sheer volume of the document set."
Separately, a department official told The Washington Post that Clinton's use of a private email account didn't necessarily violate State Department rules, as long as the emails were preserved, but that the review would determine if she broke security policies by transmitting sensitive or classified information over an email system that didn't meet security standards. A Clinton aide told The Post that 90 percent of Clinton's correspondence was with department employees at their state.gov account — presumably meaning it is already archived — but the remaining 10 percent was with government officials in other departments or email accounts "not on a government server."
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