Hillary Clinton Used Personal E-mail for State Department Work

The practice was discovered after a congressional committee sought Clinton’s e-mails during its investigation into the terrorist attack in Benghazi.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton onstage during the fourth day of the Clinton Global Initiative's 10th Annual Meeting at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers on September 24, 2014 in New York City.
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By Elizabeth Wasserman and Toluse Olorunnipa

March 3, 2015 at 11:47 AM UTC

Updated on

March 3, 2015 at 4:44 PM UTC

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Hillary Clinton used a personal e-mail account while serving as U.S. Secretary of State to conduct official business instead of a government account, the State Department said.

The practice was discovered after the State Department last year began reaching out to former secretaries of state, asking them to submit records for preservation. After Clinton complied, the department found about 300 e-mails that they turned over to a congressional committee investigating the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. The attack killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.