Hillary Clinton email flap exposes gaps in State Department records

Hillary Clinton’s claim that most work-related emails sent from her personal account were preserved in the electronic files of other State Department officials fell apart Friday.
After a week of deflecting questions about how emails were handled during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, the agency finally acknowledged that the email traffic of other senior officials was not automatically or routinely archived.
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The loose record-keeping practices, which were immediately criticized by historians and open government advocates, are only now being corrected.