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How extensive was Hillary Rodham Clintons use of personal e-mail during her tenure as secretary of State? Lets put it this way: She apparently had more than just a personal account. She had an entire personal e-mail system.

Thats what the Associated Press is reporting, in any case. An AP investigation found that the computer server that handled Mrs. Clintons e-mail traced back to an Internet service registered to her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

Its unclear who ran this infrastructure, write AP reporters Jack Gillum and Ted Bridis. They traced it to a mysterious entity, Eric Hoteham. Its possible this is a pseudonym, since the name doesnt appear in any public databases.

Eric Hoteham is listed as the customer at the Clinton house address in Internet registration records. On Wednesday, social media went nuts as self-appointed detectives tried to figure out whether Eric Hoteham was a real person or an anagram or some other symbolic combination.

As the conservative website Twitchy quickly noted, the letters in the name can be rearranged into a number of other phrases, among them oath crime, eh? and Hi come hater.

What does Eric Hoteham really mean? Twitter sleuths are on it! Twitchy said.

Wordplay aside, why would Clinton go so far as to rely on her own physical computers to handle her e-mail traffic? After all, she probably was not relaxing from the stress of being secretary of State by writing her own code.

Well, more control is one obvious feature here. Her husband is an ex-president and she hopes to be one in the future. Over the decades, the Clintons may have decided they can rely only on themselves for security and discretion in communications. Theyve long felt under attack from what Mrs. Clinton once labeled a vast right-wing conspiracy.

After all, Mr. Clintons affair with intern Monica Lewinsky became a matter of public concern almost by accident, as Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr learned of the relationship while investigating other matters, including the Clintons' involvement in the failed Whitewater land deal in Arkansas.

But this example also points out the obvious negative implication for Clinton of the e-mail system revelation. It could easily be interpreted as evidence she has something to hide. Thats certainly how Clintons critics on the right see it.

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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging the State Department to release the emails she wrote from a private email account when she was secretary of state.

In a tweet late Wednesday, the likely Democratic presidential candidate wrote, "I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible."

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in response to Clinton's tweet that the department will review for release the emails Clinton provided.

Harf said the department will conduct the review as quickly as possible, but said that could take some time, given the sheer volume of emails.

Meanwhile, Republicans are signaling that questions about her email practices as secretary of state will follow her into her widely anticipated presidential campaign.

GOP leaders, who control the investigative powers of Congress, say the revelations reaffirm a long-held GOP portrayal of Bill and Hillary Clinton as secretive and playing by their own rules.

Democrats dismiss the accusations as trivial and question whether the emails will resonate with voters in an election 20 months away.

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Hillary Clinton to State Dept.: Release my emails

For nearly two years after Hillary Clinton stepped down from her secretary of state post, the state department was unable to search her emails because they were in her possession, and not on the departments servers, officials said. Photograph: The New York Times

Hillary Clinton said late on Wednesday that she had asked the state department to release tens of thousands of work-related emails that she sent from her personal email account when she was secretary of state.

I want the public to see my email, Ms Clinton wrote in a post on Twitter. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.

Instead of releasing the emails - which total 50,000 pages - on her own, Ms Clinton asked the state department to do so, so that it can review them to determine whether parts should be redacted because they contain information that could be damaging to national security. That could take several weeks.

In a statement, the state department said it will review for public release the emails provided by Secretary Clinton to the department, using a normal process that guides such releases.

We will undertake this review as quickly as possible; given the sheer volume of the document set, this review will take some time to complete, the statement read.

The announcement came two days after the New York Times reported that Clinton did not have a government email address when she was secretary of state and that she had exclusively used a personal one to conduct her government business.

The report raised questions about whether Ms Clinton, who was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, violated National Archives and Records Administration regulations that said agencies must ensure that federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.

The emails from Ms Clintons account were kept on private servers, shielding them from congressional and Freedom of Information Act requests for at least 18 months after she left office, if not longer. It was only after the State Department asked Ms Clinton in October for emails on her personal account related to her work in office that she turned them over.

Three weeks ago, roughly 900 of the emails were turned over to a House committee investigating the 2012 attacks on US outposts in Benghazi.

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