article_snippet: Federal law requires all letters and emails written by government officials to be retained for Congressional committees, historians and so the media can access historians.
article_snippet: Mrs Clinton’s actions mean it will be harder to obtain copies of the emails through Freedom of Information laws - and could have been a breach of federal law.
article_snippet: A former senior IT official in the Department of State said that the rules from the National Archives are ‘antiquated’ and say that the rules from the National Archives falls on the individual to save the individual emails for archiving purposes.
article_snippet: ’s the reason they head the Department of State actions mean it will be harder to obtain copies of the emails through Freedom of Information laws - and could have been a breach of federal law .
article_snippet: Mrs Clinton has also said that Mrs Clinton has handed over 55,000 emails to the National Archives, though not only after over 55,000 emails to the National Archives were vetted by Mrs Clinton team.