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"Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal
email account to conduct official business?" U.S. Representative
Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House of
Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee at the
time, wrote in a Dec. 13, 2012, letter.
"If so, please identify the account used," Issa wrote. The
letter, released by his office, was initially reported by the
New York Times.
The State Department's response on March 27, 2013, shortly after
Clinton left the agency, did not address the first question,
according to a copy provided by Issa's office.
State spokesman Jeff Rathke said on Wednesday that the
department had described its policies "in detail" in its
response to the committee.
The letter quoted from the Foreign Affairs Manual that any
employee using personal email "should make it clear that his or
her personal email is not being used for official business."
Clinton has been criticized for using personal email for
government business when she led the department from 2009 to
2013, a controversy that flared in the weeks leading to her
announcement on Sunday that she would run for president in 2016.
In his letter, Issa also sought documentation of State
Department policies on the use of unofficial email accounts to
conduct government business, including archiving and
recordkeeping procedures.
Secretary of State John Kerry last month asked the department's
inspector general for an overall review of efforts to improve
records management, including email archiving and responding to
Freedom of Information Act and congressional inquiries.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Emily Stephenson; Editing by
Jonathan Oatis and Lisa Von Ahn)
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