Clinton Private E-mail Plan Drew Concerns Early On

Before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, one of her most trusted confidantes approached Bill Clinton’s aides with a plan. Mrs. Clinton wanted to run her private e-mail account through the server her husband set up in the family’s Chappaqua home, people familiar with the matter said. A private server had obvious advantages. It would give Mrs. Clinton more control over her e-mail, people familiar with her team’s reasoning said. Privately, aides of the former president worried that adding her account would make the system a target for hackers. They also weren’t aware she would use it for all her official correspondence.