State: No classified e-mails sent through Clinton’s personal account

The State Department has said that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never sent any classified e-mails through her personal e-mail account during the multiple years that she was in office. “We have no indication that Secretary Clinton used her personal e-mail account for anything but unclassified purposes,” department spokeswoman Marie Harf said during the department's daily briefing. But Harf said that if she had to send those sensitive messages, Clinton used secure phone calls, went through aides or took other steps to make sure they were protected. “She certainly had a way of communicating in a classified setting,” she said.

“There was no prohibition on using a non-State.gov account for official business as long as it was preserved,” Harf added. Most of the e-mails the former secretary sent from her private account went to State Department officials, she claimed, so the messages were preserved that way. Others were part of a trove of 55,000 pages of messages delivered to the department in recent months, as part of an update of its recordkeeping policies.