Of more than a billion e-mail sent in 2011, State Dept employees archived fewer than 65,000

The IG found that out of more than a billion emails sent by State Department employees in 2011, only 61,156 were archived as official records using the agencies SMART system. That fell to 41,749 in 2013, the same year Clinton left office.

SMART requires employees to manually designate individual emails as official records.

While the audit did not analyze the records-handling practices of top-level agency officials such as Clinton, deputy secretaries, undersecretaries and their aides — the report notes that they utilize a separate records system — the IG’s findings suggest that any emails Clinton may have exchanged with other agency employees would not have been archived.