Hillary Clinton’s justification for her exclusive use of a personal email account as secretary of state was partially contradicted today by the State Department, who said Friday that the archiving of the work emails of rank-and-file department officials did not begin until February of 2015.
Clinton said Tuesday that her use of a personal email address did not violate the Federal Records Act because she sent emails to State Department officials on their work email address.
“It was my practice to communicate with State Department and other government officials on their .gov accounts so those e-mails would be automatically saved in the State Department system to meet record-keeping requirements, and that, indeed, is what happened,” Clinton said.
