--- title: Hillary Clinton Will Turn Email Server Over to Justice Department description: Clinton has directed that the personal email server she used while serving as secretary of state be given to the Justice Department canonical: https://time.com/3993517/hillary-clinton-justice-dept-emails/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-11T23:42:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T02:32:39.000Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Hillary Clinton to Give Email Server to Justice Department og:description: She'll also turn over a thumb drive with emails og:url: https://time.com/3993517/hillary-clinton-justice-dept-emails/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23778411c180cd7f/69885eca524fc014e1df3fd7/hillary-clinton2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: DES MOINES, IOWA - JULY 27: Secretary Hillary Clinton tours the DART Central Station, before taking questions from journalists, to highlight her climate change policy announcement, in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, July 27, 2015. 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Democratic Presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton tours the DART Central Station, before taking questions from journalists, in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 27, 2015.Melina Mara—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:32 AM UTCPublished: Aug 11, 2015 11:42 PM UTC Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has directed that her private server be turned over to the Department of Justice as part of a [continuing probe](http://time.com/3985491/fbi-investigate-clinton-email-storage/) into the handling of potentially classified information on her email account, her campaign announced Tuesday. According to spokesman Nick Merrill, Clinton directed that the server stored in her Westchester, NY home and a thumb drive in the possession of her attorney—both of which contained copies of emails from her time as Secretary of State—be transferred to the Justice Department. On Monday, Clinton signed an affidavit swearing under penalty of perjury that she had turned over all copies of potential government records from her time in office. The [revelation](http://time.com/3729583/hillary-clinton-personal-email-secretary-of-state/) earlier this year that Clinton exclusively used the private account [rocked](http://time.com/3730609/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-emails/) [Washington](http://time.com/3985795/hillary-clinton-huma-abedin-chuck-grassley-teneo-emails/) and her nascent presidential campaign, leading to an erosion her [poll numbers](http://time.com/3977941/hillary-clinton-poll-trump/) and a majority of Americans to view her as untrustworthy. At the time, Clinton [denied](http://time.com/3739582/hillary-clinton-emails-press-conference/) that her server contained any classified information. Clinton turned over 55,000 pages of work emails to the Department of State last year, which are under review for release by the agency and the subject of multiple Freedom of Information Act requests. The first batch of emails released included a section of an email [retroactively](http://time.com/3894674/hillary-clinton-emails-benghazi/) marked as top secret—one of at least dozens of instances of information included on the server that have since been marked as “confidential,” “secret” or “top secret.” Last month, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community sent a [security referral](http://time.com/3971238/hillary-clinton-email-justice-classified/) to the Justice Department warning that Clinton’s server and the thumb drive may contain classified information outside of the government’s control. “These emails were not retroactively classified by the State Department; rather these emails contained classified information when they were generated and, according to IC classification officials, that information remains classified today,” the Inspectors General for the State Department and Intelligence Community in a [joint statement](http://time.com/3971854/hillary-clinton-email-classified/) in July. “This classified information should never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system.” Clinton “directed her team to give her email server that was used during her tenure as Secretary to the Department of Justice, as well as a thumb drive containing copies of her emails already provided to the State Department,” Merrill said in a statement. “She pledged to cooperate with the Government’s security inquiry, and if there are more questions, we will continue to address them.” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that the intelligence community has concurred with the inspector general that at least two messages should be upgraded to “top secret” classification. “The State Department takes seriously its obligations to protect sensitive information, holding its employees to a high standard of compliance with regulations and procedures,” he said. “Department employees circulated these emails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011 and ultimately some were forwarded to Secretary Clinton. 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