A spokesman for the State Department said Tuesday he did not see any signs that Hillary Clinton was in poor health when he worked with her at the agency.

"She seemed very vital and dynamic and a healthy person," spokesman Mark Toner told reporters when asked about the former secretary of state's recent coughing fits.

Toner brushed off questions about the FBI's discovery that Clinton used and subsequently lost 13 different Blackberries that had stored potentially classified information from her time at the State Department.

"It's something for her and her staff to answer," Toner said. "All we can say is that she was never provided with a State Department Blackberry."

While the State Department has consistently declined to wade into the growing controversy over Clinton's conduct when she led the agency, Clinton has pointed to the State Department's refusal to criticize her behavior as evidence that she acted ethically.

The Democratic nominee has taken fire for her contact with Clinton Foundation donors and for her staff's efforts to conceal records as FBI and congressional investigators closed in on them last year.