UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she had no reason to save personal emails from her time as secretary of state.

The possible Democratic presidential candidate during a news conference on Tuesday there were more than 60,000 emails in total sent and received. About half of them were personal emails, she said.

Clinton was answering questions Tuesday for the first time about her email practices as secretary of state. She spoke following a Tuesday afternoon speech at the United Nations.

She says she went “above and beyond” what she was required to do as a State Department employee.

Her comments come after days of silence and intensifying calls from Democrats as well as Republicans to address the matter.

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BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the full trove of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails as secretary of state will be published on a website after they are reviewed.

Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says a review of the 55,000 pages of emails will take several months. They’ll be posted online afterward for the public to see.

Psaki also said Tuesday the reasons for any redactions will be made public, in line with Freedom of Information Act guidelines.

Those could include any passages revealing anything from trade secrets to sensitive national security information.
Clinton’s aides have said no classified material was transmitted via that private email account that she used for official business while in office.