The official also told reporters: "I think it's clear from the report that the department could have done a better job preserving emails and records of secretaries of state and their senior staff going back several administrations.
Did keeping her correspondence private violate State Department rules about preserving emails?
Despite this, the state department still ruled in its recent report that he did not preserve email records.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last week sent a letter to firms ordering them to preserve emails, documents and instant messages from the past three years, two sources who received the letters told Reuters.
Clinton attempted to explain that although she did not adhere to the federal guidelines governing the preservation of her emails she was not technically in violation since the State Department still "captured and preserved" her emails because it was her "practice to email government officials on their State or other.gov accounts".
Speaking to a pack of about 100 journalists outside the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Clinton stressed that she went "above and beyond" State Department requirements for preserving her work-related emails.
The thousands of pages include contracts, emails, preserved chats, budgets, expense reports, power points, photographs and passports.
Teaching materials, explanations, gestures, and patients' questions can be preserved and subsequently emailed to patients after consultations.
The email was addressed to OWL chief Ashley Carson, whose work, preserving the dignity of middle-aged and elderly women, Simpson describes as not "honest work".
In a 1 October letter, Smith asked Shukla, who is director of the independent Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) in Rockville, Maryland, to preserve all of the "email, electronic documents, and data" that the institute has created since 2009.
