--- title: Here's How Hillary Clinton's Lawyers Chose Which Emails To Hand Over description: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's lawyers did not review all of her emails manually, but instead used automated searches. canonical: https://time.com/3739731/hillary-clinton-emails/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-10T20:55:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T14:40:57.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Here's How Clinton's Lawyers Chose Which Emails To Hand Over og:description: They didn't go through them manually. og:url: https://time.com/3739731/hillary-clinton-emails/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31c59cc0bb0bd38f/69878308e53aba6d4b4d7fff/hillary-clinton5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference at the United Nations in New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Clinton's Lawyers Chose Which Emails To Hand Over twitter:description: They didn't go through them manually. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31c59cc0bb0bd38f/69878308e53aba6d4b4d7fff/hillary-clinton5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's How Hillary Clinton's Lawyers Chose Which Emails To Hand Over by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Updated: Jan 24, 2024 2:40 PM UTCPublished: Mar 10, 2015 8:55 PM UTC  Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference at the United Nations in New York March 10, 2015. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference at the United Nations in New York March 10, 2015.Lucas Jackson—Reuters by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Updated: Jan 24, 2024 2:40 PM UTCPublished: Mar 10, 2015 8:55 PM UTC Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that her attorneys reviewed more than 62,000 emails she sent while in office to find work-related correspondence to comply with a department request to turn over records from her time in office. After her press conference, her office released a nine-page explainer which said that her lawyers used automated searches and a scan of senders and recipients to navigate the emails, rather than reviewing each one manually. According to the statement, 30,490 emails were provided to the State Department, and the remaining 31,830 were deemed by her attorneys to be private, personal records, that Clinton later “chose not to keep.” Here’s how Clinton’s office says her lawyers examined her email records: --- > “” --- Here’s the full statement from Clinton’s office: \[scribd id=258299784 key=key-rTsPnXDMHWkJW5649Smi mode=scroll\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3739731/hillary-clinton-emails/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3739731/hillary-clinton-emails/"},"headline":"Here's How Hillary Clinton's Lawyers Chose Which Emails To Hand Over","datePublished":"2015-03-10T20:55:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T14:40:57.000Z","description":"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's lawyers did not review all of her emails manually, but instead used automated searches.","url":"https://time.com/3739731/hillary-clinton-emails/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","hillary clinton emails"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31c59cc0bb0bd38f/69878308e53aba6d4b4d7fff/hillary-clinton5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31c59cc0bb0bd38f/69878308e53aba6d4b4d7fff/hillary-clinton5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference at the United Nations in New York","caption":"Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference at the United Nations in New York","creditText":"Lucas Jackson—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3739731/hillary-clinton-emails/","name":"Here's How Hillary Clinton's Lawyers Chose Which Emails To Hand Over"}}]}] ```