In her Tuesday press conference defending her reliance on a private email system while serving as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton claimed that the “vast majority” of emails were sent to other State Department employees and therefore automatically archived.
But State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Friday told reporters that it wasn’t until last month that the State Department started automatically archiving emails — and it’s only being done for senior staff.
“Our goal is to apply this [automatic archiving] to all employee mailboxes by the end of 2016,” Psaki said, according to Politico.
On Tuesday, Clinton said, “It was my practice to communicate with State Department and other government officials on their .gov accounts so those e-mails would be automatically saved in the State Department system to meet record-keeping requirements, and that, indeed, is what happened.”
A document provided by the Clinton office in conjunction with her news conference reiterated this point: “To address requirements to keep records of her work emails, it was her practice to email government employees on their ‘.gov’ email address. That way, work emails would be immediately captured and preserved in government record-keeping systems.”
