Criminal investigation sought into Clinton's private email account
The Justice Department has been asked to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled sensitive government information with the use of a personal email account during her time as secretary of state, according to a report.
The request is made by inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies following their assessment in a June 29 memo that Clinton’s private email account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails,” The New York Times reports.
Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination for 2016, has denied handling classified information on her private account, which she used to conduct State Department business.
Clinton's use of the personal email for official business has stirred up a political storm since it was first revealed in March.
The private account potentially put thousands of pages of State Department emails at risk, but it also shielded Clinton’s correspondence from congressional and Freedom of Information Act requests.
"She followed appropriate practices in dealing with classified materials," Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement on Friday.
The Justice Department has not decided if it will open an investigation, senior officials told The Times.
Clinton has turned over about 30,000 emails from her time as secretary of state to the State Department.
The department has made some of the emails public and is reviewing others for public release.
Clinton was the secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term and his primary opponent before that in the 2008 presidential election. She is also the wife of former US President Bill Clinton who was in office from 1993 to 2001.
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