While Hillary Clinton insisted publicly that she had kept classified correspondence out of her emails, some experts are doubtful, noting such information was a major part of her work while serving as secretary of state,
The New York Times reported.
"I would assume that more than 50 percent of what the secretary of state dealt with was classified," one former State Department official, who had served before Clinton's tenure there, told the Times.
He noted that of her 30,000 business emails, at least some were likely dealing with sensitive information.
"Was every single email of the secretary of state completely unclassified? Maybe, but it's hard to imagine," the former official told the Times, speaking anonymously.
Others responded to the unclassified emails claim with what the Times offered was a touch of sarcasm.
"As a longtime critic of the government's massive overclassification, I thought it was a refreshing touch that the secretary of state conducted all her email in unclassified form," Thomas S. Blanton, director of the non-profit National Security Archive at George Washington University, told the Times.
Blanton's organization "battled the government for decades to overcome classification claims and try to make important official documents public."
To store classified information on a personal email account not affiliated with the government would violate secrecy laws, the Times said.
Clinton, who is a likely 2016 Democrat presidential candidate, stepped forward on Tuesday to try to explain herself after it was revealed that she had used a private server for work during her days at the State Department. She said that perhaps in hindsight she should have used two devices, one for work and one for her personal correspondence.
She released a nine-page statement after her public remarks that said she had deleted her personal emails — numbering 31,830 out of 62,320 total — that had been separated from those created for work,
the Guardian reported.
"After her work-related emails were identified and preserved, Secretary Clinton chose not to keep her private, personal emails that were not federal records,"
the statement said.
In the aftermath, however, many said questions remain about her conduct, MSNBC said.
Among them: "Why delete the personal emails? How long can she keep her email server private? Was Clinton's email as secure as if she used a State Department account? Why not just use two devices?"
Most intriguing, perhaps, was "who in the administration signed off on her account?"
Many have questioned whether the White House and National Security Council knew in advance of her arrangement,
MSNBC said.
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