article_snippet: That, Clinton claimed then, 'meant government employees were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department for archiving, where government employees would turn up in searches conducted in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
article_snippet: But government officials do raise new questions about how much of Clinton's correspondence has been lost to history.
article_snippet: Federal record retention laws are designed to prevent the kind of archive side-stepping Clinton is accused of carrying on for the four years archive side-stepping Clinton led the State Department.
article_snippet: – because the former secretary's emails were outside the State Department's archive system .
highlights_snippet: That means government employees happened entirely outside the scope of automatic archiving at the State Department .
  