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Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept.


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2015 Mar 3, 3:50pm   43,161 views  80 comments

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WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.

Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.

It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s post in early 2013.

Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach.

“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Nick Merrill, defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the “letter and spirit of the rules.”

Under federal law, however, letters and emails written and received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, are considered government records and are supposed to be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials.

Mrs. Clinton is not the first government official — or first secretary of state — to use a personal email account on which to conduct official business. But her exclusive use of her private email, for all of her work, appears unusual, Mr. Baron said. The use of private email accounts is supposed to be limited to emergencies, experts said, such as when an agency’s computer server is not working.

“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 Mr. Baron, who worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html?_r=0

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76   Tenpoundbass   2015 Mar 9, 6:48am  

Hilliary's private email in with it's own is not serious sour issue.

BUT!!! That combined with the tight lipped, closed fist, yell louder than them way she and the Libtard damage control handled every one of her blunders, especially Benghazi, makes it... ah how was that Mr. McGoo Biden put it? Ah yes.... "A Big F*cking deal!"

The only thing people are going to hear buzzing in their ear, is all of the idiots that blew past all transgressions of this administration by yelling "Benghazi!!!!" interchangeably, every time Obama screwed up or was caught lying, AGAIN!.

Nobody is going to want 4 more years of oppressive KGB commie Idiots. They've been so good at, the originals want to kick our buts for stealing their schtick. In fact, we've been so blazing at being a bunch of pinko commies, the originals are reverting back to their ways.

Thanks OBAMA!!

77   HydroCabron   2015 Mar 9, 6:56am  

CaptainShuddup says

her blunders, especially Benghazi

Ah-hah: BENGHAZI! Where several investigations determined no negligence.

Much worse than when she voted to send boys to die in Iraq to satisfy the blood-lust of retarded wingnuts and save her politial skin!

BENGHAZI!

One thing: she has not been rude on climate change, like that arrogant Al Gore, who insinuated that some people might be wrong, thereby hurting their fee-fees.

78   Tenpoundbass   2015 Mar 9, 7:08am  

This Idiot is not the NEXT president of the US and king of the Idiots.

months' exist in Hillary Clinton emails
Washington Examiner
By Kelly CohenPublished March 08, 2015
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Months long gaps exist in Hillary Clinton's emails, according to Rep. Trey Gowdy.

The South Carolina Republican, who is also the top Republican on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Sunday emails Clinton's camp has given to the committee have significant gaps in them.

"There are gaps of months and months and months," Gowdy said on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday.

"And if you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya, she has sunglasses on and she has her handheld device in her hand. We have no emails from that day. In fact, we have no emails from that trip," he added.

79   marcus   2015 Mar 9, 7:15am  

bob2356 says

1. Actually there now is a time frame, that was what the 2014 amendment to the law did. There was no time frame specified in the law previously.

Oh you mean after she left the state department ?

bob2356 says

She used a private email to avoid the freedom of information act.

This is one of your made up facts.

bob2356 says

Records must be in government possession and accessible to the agency.

Didn't you just say that the time at which they must be in govt possession was established after her tenure as Secretary of State ?

80   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Mar 9, 7:23am  

turtledove says

Just look at how the military feels about adultery among its officers. If caught, there are consequences. Why wouldn't the Commander in Chief be held to the same standard?

You mean "among enlisted men." If you're a General-grade officer, at worst, will get you your pension. If you're an enlisted man, you'll get demoted, disciplined, and very possibly dishonorably discharged.

But you can be an AG and engage in adultery and get wrist slaps even if you do it with an enlisted person directly under your command.

Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts publicly warned his troops at Fort Jackson, S.C., last spring that he and the Army had “zero tolerance for sexual harassment and sexual assault.” Here’s what the Army didn’t tell the soldiers: At the time, Roberts himself was under investigation by the military over allegations that he physically assaulted one of his mistresses on multiple occasions.


So a married guy not only committing adultery, but beating his mistresses.
This and much more goodness and misconduct, including the 3-star Admiral caught with fake chips at a Casino:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/military-brass-behaving-badly-files-detail-a-spate-of-misconduct-dogging-armed-forces/2014/01/26/4d06c770-843d-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html

Or with High School age recruits:
http://www.adn.com/article/20141018/national-guard-documents-detail-chronic-misconduct-among-recruiting-leaders
http://www.adn.com/article/20140904/general-resigns-parnell-assails-culture-mistrust-alaska-national-guard

When you deal with Officers, you should subject them to thrice the caution you would anybody else. It is a Kiss-ass Culture of mutual Coverups, where promotion is 100% subjective and based on the opinion of your superiors, and yet they go around presenting themselves as Paragons of Virtue. I find this common in outfits that thrive on "honor" and "uniforms".

I won't even mention Betrayus, who gave journals he shouldn't have been keeping in the first place, full of classified info, to his girlfriend-biographer. He lied to the FBI about it too, before admitting he gave them to her. His punishment is a fine, he'll keep his clearances and his ability to MIC contract himself to millions on top of his generous pension.

Actions talk, bullshit walks.

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