WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has asked the department's inspector general to look into procedures for handling emails by State Department employees, the department said on Friday.
State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said the move was not specifically to investigate the handling of emails by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state.
Clinton has been criticized for using personal email for government business when she led the department from 2009 to 2013, causing a controversy as she prepares to launch a bid for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination in 2016.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Will Dunham)
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