Washington Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have violated federal records laws by using a personal email account for all of her work messages, the New York Times reported on Monday.
The newspaper said the likely Democratic presidential candidate conducted all her official business during her four-year tenure at the State Department on a private email account.
It added that Clinton, who stepped down as secretary of state in 2013, recently handed over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department in response to a department effort to comply with record-keeping practices.
Federal law says letters and emails written and received by federal officials are government records that must be retained, according to the paper. Regulations at the time Clinton served as secretary of state called for emails on personal accounts to be preserved as well, the paper said.
The Times said most experts believed private email accounts should only be used for official government business in emergencies, according to the Times.
A spokesman for Clinton told the Times that Clinton was complying with the "letter and spirit of the rules" and had expected her emails would be retained. He declined to detail why she chose to conduct business from her personal account, the Times said.
The State Department did not immediately return a request for comment from Reuters. Clinton's spokesman could also not be immediately reached for comment.
Clinton is widely considered the front-runner for next year's Democratic presidential nomination if she decides to enter the race.
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(NBC NEWS) -The U.S. State Department said Monday that Hillary Clinton had recently provided it with emails from her time as Secretary of State.
The department spoke out after the New York Timesreportedthat Clinton had only used a personal email address to conduct government business while at the state department and possibly violated requirements that her emails be preserved.
The Times reported that Clinton, widely expected to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, never even used a State Department email address during her four years there. Further, aides did not act to preserve her emails on government servers as required by federal law, the Times reported.
"In response to our request, Secretary Clinton provided the department with emails spanning her time at the Department," Harf said, adding that the State Department reviewed those emails and produced about 300 of the correspondences for a House committee investigating the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and Clinton's communications about the attack.
Harf did not confirm that Clinton had used only a personal email account to conduct business as secretary of state nor whether Clinton had provided all of the government business emails that were sent or received on her personal account.
Jeb Bush, who has said he is eyeing the Republican nomination for president, used the opportunity to taunt Clinton, calling for her unclassified emails to be released and playing up his publishing of thousands of emails from his eight years as governor of Florida on awebsite.
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