Potential 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, used her personal email account for business matters while she was Secretary of State before stepping down in 2013.

This goes against federal code that all correspondence should be submitted through a government email address, which she did not have during all four years in the position.

This breach goes against the Federal Records Act, which seeks to preserve emails to be placed on record.

New York Times reports 55,000 pages of emails were turned over to the State Department, however, they decided which emails to turn in.

Her spokesperson, Nick Merrill, said in a statement, “Like secretaries of state before her, she used her own email account when engaging with any Department officials. For government business, she emailed them on their Department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained.”

John F. Kerry is reportedly the first secretary of state to use a government-mandated email ending with “state.gov,” Washington Post reports.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki insisted they have “long had access to a wide array of Secretary Clinton’s records — including emails between her and Department officials with state.gov accounts, as well as cables.”

It isn’t clear if all of the emails she exchanged while in the position have been recovered.

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