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NYT: Lawmakers Asked Hillary About Govt Email Account in 2012

NYT: Lawmakers Asked Hillary About Govt Email Account in 2012
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By    |   Wednesday, 15 April 2015 06:22 AM EDT

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked point-blank by congressional investigators — seven weeks before she left office — whether she used a nonofficial email account but ignored the query, The New York Times reported.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, wrote Clinton on Dec. 13, 2012, as part of its probe into Obama administration policy toward officials' use of personal email. Some administration and Environmental Protection Agency staffers had earlier been found to be using private accounts for government business.

"Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal email account to conduct official business?" Issa wrote to Clinton. "If so, please identify the account used."

The chairman also inquired, "Does the agency require employees to certify on a periodic basis or at the end of their employment with the agency they have turned over any communications involving official business that they have sent or received using nonofficial accounts?"

Clinton left office on Feb. 1, 2013.

On March 27, 2013, Thomas Gibbons, the acting assistant secretary for legislative affairs, replied to Issa with a broad description of the State Department's email policies. The question of Clinton's emails was left unanswered, according to the Times.

In March of this year, Clinton admitted that she used only her personal email account. She also said that about 50 percent of all her State Department emails were deleted from the private server she maintained because they were personal, according to the Times.

Clinton's position is that the emails she wrote to State Department officials have anyway been stored because they were addressed to .gov accounts. When Clinton was in office, the department had no set policy on email accounts, Politico has reported.

Clinton is now the presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, having officially declared Sunday.

The State Department begged off from a Times request to explain why it had ignored Issa's original email query.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked point-blank by congressional investigators - seven weeks before she left office in 2013 - whether she used a nonofficial email account but ignored the query, The New York Times reported.
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