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State Department officials routinely sent secrets over e-mail

Boston Globe: WASHINGTON — The transmission of now-classified information across Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail is consistent with a State Department culture in which diplomats routinely sent secret material on unsecured e-mail during the past two administrations, according to documents reviewed by the Associated Press.

Clinton’s use of a home server makes her case unique and has become an issue in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. But it is not clear whether the security breach would have been any less had she used department e-mail. The department only systematically checks e-mail for sensitive or classified material in response to a public records request.

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