Justice Dept: Employees are allowed to delete personal emails from .gov accounts.

So even if Hillary had used a .gov account and it had contained some personal emails, it would have been legal for her to delete them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-emails-delete_55f349c5e4b063ecbfa47b17

WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would have had the authority to delete personal emails even if she had used a government email address, instead of her own private server, government lawyers argued this week.

Justice Department lawyers said in a court filing, first reported by Buzzfeed and The Washington Times, that there was "no question" Clinton had the authority to erase messages she thought were personal. The filing came as part of an ongoing legal battle over the government's failure to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests for Clinton's emails.

State Department employees, according to the Justice Department, "may delete messages they deem in their own discretion to be personal." The government said that Judicial Watch, the organization that filed the FOIA lawsuit, had provided "no evidence" that Clinton withheld any legitimate federal records.

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