Justice Dept. affirms Clinton could delete personal emails
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justice-dept-affirms-clinton-could-delete-personal-emails/2015/09/11/171c2678-58d5-11e5-9f54-1ea23f6e02f3_story.html
WASHINGTON Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the Justice Department told a federal court.
Lawyers for the government made the assertion in a filing this week with the U.S. District Court in Washington, part of a public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that seeks access to Clintons emails.
Clinton, the former secretary of state and front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has been dogged by questions about her use of a private email account for government business.
She has said that she sent and received about 60,000 emails during her four years in the Obama administration, about half of which were personal and deleted. The others were turned over to the State Department.
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