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Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice also did the same thing.
Powell and Rice did not operate their own private email servers.
That seems somewhat worse, they used private email on servers they did not control?
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#33Can someone explain why this is happening for us non-Americans (or possibly just me if I missed some major news event)?
If it was a two star general who did this, he'd be in jail.
Not a four star though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/petra...
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#34Chelsea's email to B & H about her experience in Haiti is an informative read. I had assumed our disaster mitigation/rescue NGOs were a lot more effective than they actually are. They sound pretty awful, reading that email.
Yeah. Someone I know who briefly worked at the UN had some interesting stories about incompetence and politics where factional lines were drawn by nationality.
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Hillary Clinton used her on personal email server and address to conduct official business while serving as Secretary of State for the US (she's not the first to do this, Sarah Palin - former Governer of Alaska had similar problems I believe). Two problems (at least): - that is not permitted especially when handling Confidential/TopSecret material. You have to use their services/devices/etc so that they maintain cont…
> all communication with public officials is archived and made public Is that all communication period, or only communication with them while they're acting in their capacity as a public official? How do public officials keep their legitimately personal business private? (E.g., having an affair). Can their personal email accounts be opened up and made public at any time? I'm curious.
All government work related emails are archived. They're available to the public through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests - basically, you make a request to the federal government for certain types of information and they are required to provide it to you, subject to limitations for relevance, confidentiality, etc.
Purely personal emails aren't archived. Government officials and employees use personal email accounts all the time, and their contents aren't turned over to the government PROVIDED that they relate purely to prsonal matters.
But in Hillary Clinton's case, she used a personal email account (stored on her personal server) exclusively to conduct government business. She said she turned over government-related emails to the State Department (as is required by law) and permanently deleted the rest. She also says she never sent confidential info or received information marked as confidential through this personal email address.
There are several investigations going on right now into her email practices. The focus primarily is on whether she mishandled confidential/top secret information. In response to FOIA and other legal requests, the State Department has been releasing her emails to the public. But the State Department has been withholding some documents on the basis that they contained confidential/top secret information after all.
Clinton says the agencies are retroactively applying an overly broad definition of confidnetiality to her emails, but her detractors are saying that the confidentiality designations show that she mishandled government secrets in violation of the law. Hence the political firestorm.
No matter how this turns out, using a homebrew personal email server to conduct state business was an incredibly foolish thing to do. I can't believe Clinton did this. I don't care if Palin or Jeb Bush or other people used personal servers too - she was the Secretary of State with presidential ambitions, and she's had a big red target on her since 1992. This reinforces the worst stereotypes that people have about her and the Clintons in general, that they are secretive, paranoid, conspiratorial, and completely willing to operate in the grey areas of the law.
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Powell and Rice did not operate their own private email servers.
That seems somewhat worse, they used private email on servers they did not control?
A rare lapse in following procedure, likely accidental, is not even on the same planet as setting up a private email server to avoid oversight.
Those emails would still be safer on gmail than in some small IT firm's bathroom closet.
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#37Can someone explain why this is happening for us non-Americans (or possibly just me if I missed some major news event)?
Hillary Clinton used her on personal email server and address to conduct official business while serving as Secretary of State for the US (she's not the first to do this, Sarah Palin - former Governer of Alaska had similar problems I believe). Two problems (at least): - that is not permitted especially when handling Confidential/TopSecret material. You have to use their services/devices/etc so that they maintain cont…
Also, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, while he was Milwaukee County Executive.
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#38Wonder what's classified related to Price Waterhouse
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#39Interesting to note that searching using terms to probe her connections to the financial industry brings back a bunch of heavily redacted emails.
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#40Chelsea's email to B & H about her experience in Haiti is an informative read. I had assumed our disaster mitigation/rescue NGOs were a lot more effective than they actually are. They sound pretty awful, reading that email.
The other interesting piece of information is the incredible amount of access Chelsea gets given her experience level. Obviously, her connections have helped her.
In her defense though, she seems to be living up to it.