article_snippet: A State Department official who spoke to The Washington Post acknowledged that some of the correspondence
article_snippet: Guidelines published by Politico and other publications on Thursday evening suggest otherwise, however. '
article_snippet: It is the Department’s general policy that normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an authorized [Automated Information System], which has the proper level of security control to provide nonrepudiation, authentication and encryption, to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information,' the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual says.
article_snippet: An official who spoke to Politico said that it is true that 'sensitive but unclassified information should be handled on a system with certain security requirements' with the caveat 'except in certain circumstances.'
article_snippet: the State Department insider said The State Department insider's not true that 'by using personal email she is automatically out of step' with the guidelines outlined in the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual.
article_snippet: Likewise, the Post's source at State said, 'the Post's source at State are not going to prejudge the outcome of the review of Secretary Clinton’s 55,000 pages of e-mails.'
highlights_snippet: 'Day-to-day operations [must] be conducted on an authorized [system] which has the proper level of security control,' State Dept.