[caption id=”attachment_149073″ align=”aligncenter” width=”1024″]Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a community forum on healthcare, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, at Moulton Elementary School in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Hillary Clinton’s private email server problems have grown, as officials in the Obama administration found non-disclosed work-related emails.
The work emails cover a two-month period where Clinton said she exclusively used a Blackberry account that she can’t access anymore, according to The Week.
The emails concern personnel matters that Clinton discussed with now-retired General David Petraeus, according to the Associated Press.
Previously, Clinton said that all work-related emails had been provided to the State Department.
The Defense Department discovered the Petraeus emails, then gave them to the inspector general of the State Department.
Clinton and her advisers claimed that emails unrelated to official business had been deleted from the server, but the server might not have been wiped, which means that the 31,000 personal emails might be recovered.
If investigators can recover those emails, Clinton will face more scrutiny, especially if her personal emails could be classified as work-related. That the release of her emails has been in batches, rather than one mass release, has not helped. Only about a quarter of her emails have been released, and with each release, more material has produced more questions.
The email investigation surrounding her campaign has been a factor in her declining poll numbers. While Clinton maintains a 13 point lead over Bernie Sanders, her support has fallen from 64 percent in late May to almost 41 percent today.
Clinton has faced constant criticism and negative press for the better part of the last two decades. Regardless, she has been able to remain prominent and popular among Democrats, but her position as the presumptive frontrunner for the presidential nomination is much less stable than it was a few months ago.
