State Dept. email archiving process puts Clinton on the spot
The State Department only last month started automatically preserving dozens of high-level officials’ emails, according to a department spokeswoman, a revelation that comes amid the controversy surrounding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s own email use.
This is key because Clinton, in her news conference on Tuesday to answer questions about why she exclusively used a private email address to communicate during her tenure, told reporters she’d thought her communications to senior department officials were always saved. That’s an important point, given legal requirements for preserving federal records.
“In meeting the record-keeping obligations, it was my practice to email government officials on their State or dot-gov accounts so that the emails were immediately captured and preserved,” she said.
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