The New York Times revealed in March that Hillary Clinton used a private email account for official business throughout her time as Secretary of State, causing people to question whether she intentionally violated the federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. Clinton officially launched her 2016 presidential campaign last month, but her campaign team is already struggling after a number of influential politicians voiced their opinions to the Senate Judiciary committee on Wednesday that she should be “fired” for violating the Freedom of Intelligence Act “in a premeditated and deliberate sort of way.”

In a report released on Mar. 2, the New York Times revealed that the former Secretary of State exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business, and didn’t even have a government email address during her four-year tenure. Current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs immediately began calling her use of a private account a serious breach, and Clinton was reportedly forced to turn over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department last December. When she turned in the emails, Clinton admitted that she had erased a similar number of emails her lawyers deemed private, so the State is essentially being forced to take her word that she provided all of the work-related emails.

“You don’t have any way of verifying you have all of the official emails she processed on her personal email account?” asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) during Wednesday’s congressional hearing. “What really bothers me is when people plan in a premeditated and deliberate sort of way to avoid the Freedom of Information Act and federal government requirements requiring them to make public information accessible to the public.”

Assistant Secretary of State Joyce Barr promised that the State Department is processing the emails Clinton provided for release under the Freedom of Information Act, but was unable to argue with Cornyn when he pointed out that the State has no way of verifying that they have all of Clinton’s official emails. Barr was also unable to disagree that Clinton’s use of a private server could have allowed the emails to be compromised by hackers or foreign intelligence services, but stands by the actions the State Department has taken since discovering Clinton’s transgression.

“I think that the action we’ve taken in the course of recovering these emails have made it very clear what people’s responsibilities are with respect to recordkeeping,” Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I think the message is loud and clear that that is not acceptable.”

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) agreed that Clinton’s use of the private server was “a bad decision,” but went on to say that any government employee who intentionally put records outside of official agency systems should be fired.

“How on Earth could we have a records management operation in one of the most important areas of government that seems to be so bush league?” asked Tillis. “This just does not happen in the private sector. There are a lot of tools available to make this archiving almost as easy and seamless as possible.”

Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton, defended the former Secretary of State’s use of the personal email account last March by saying that she always complied with the “letter and spirit of the rules,” but federal law states that letters and emails written and received by federal officials are considered government records and are supposed to be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. Jason R. Baron, a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, told the Times that while Clinton is not the first government official to use a personal email account for official business, her exclusive use of her private email is unheard of.

“I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business,” said Baron.