Hillary Clinton used only a personal email address to conduct official government business during her four-year tenure as Secretary of State in a ‘serious’ breach of protocol, officials have said.
The 67-year-old former first lady did not acquire nor use a government email account while serving in the position from January 2009 to February 2013, State Department officials said.
She also failed to preserve her correspondence on the State Department’s servers – something that is required of officials under the US Federal Records Act – until two months ago.
And even then, her aides allegedly decided which of her tens of thousands of personal emails to hand over to the department in Washington D.C.’s Harry S. Truman Building for the public record.
They ultimately chose to release 55,000 pages of correspondence as she stepped down from the role in 2013, the New York Times reported.