Posted on 03/03/2015 2:15:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Asked if Clinton made a mistake by using a personal email address exclusively for State Department business, Earnest said State Department officials have handled the situation properly by asking Clinton to forward them any emails pertaining to official business so they can be archived.
"It's the responsibility of State Department officials to ensure they are in compliance with the Federal Records Act," he said. "What the State Department officials have done is to forward their personal email records that pertain to official government business. That's exactly what Secretary Clinton has done."
According to several media reports Tuesday, Clinton did not even have a government address during her time as America's top diplomat, from 2009 to 2013. The New York Times reported that her aides took no action to preserve her emails on department services, as required by the Federal Records Act.
To ensure that Clinton was following the law, the State Department would need to be certain that she has forwarded all of her personal emails dealing with official business to the proper archiving officials.
Instead, the Times reported that Clinton advisers selected which of her emails to turn over to the State Department for archival purposes after poring through tens of thousands of pages of correspondence. The State Department said late Monday that it had received 55,000 pages of Clinton's emails as part of a request made to former secretaries of state to hand over official documents they have in their person possession.
Asked if Clinton made a mistake by using a personal email address exclusively for State Department business, Earnest said State Department officials have handled the situation properly by asking Clinton to forward them any emails pertaining to official business so they can be archived.
"It's the responsibility of State Department officials to ensure they are in compliance with the Federal Records Act," he said. "What the State Department officials have done is to forward their personal email records that pertain to official government business. That's exactly what Secretary Clinton has done."
According to several media reports Tuesday, Clinton did not even have a government address during her time as America's top diplomat, from 2009 to 2013. The New York Times reported that her aides took no action to preserve her emails on department services, as required by the Federal Records Act.
To ensure that Clinton was following the law, the State Department would need to be certain that she has forwarded all of her personal emails dealing with official business to the proper archiving officials.
Instead, the Times reported that Clinton advisers selected which of her emails to turn over to the State Department for archival purposes after poring through tens of thousands of pages of correspondence. The State Department said late Monday that it had received 55,000 pages of Clinton's emails as part of a request made to former secretaries of state to hand over official documents they have in their person possession.
So has anybody asked whether Horseface Kerry is using personal email?
It’s no secret that pretty much the entire administration and bureaucracy use personal email accounts with fake names whenever they feel like it.
Rules are for peasants. These are brilliant Ivy-League educated elites with “generalized discretion”.
asking Clinton to forward them any emails pertaining to official business
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah right! That’ll do the trick! Here’s what they should really do: Subpoena her email account and dig deep!
An interesting thing could happen. If Clinton says “Oops, i don’t know what happened to all those emails” then the ISP or mail server WILL have them backed up. I doubt they are going to admit they don’t have a secure storage facility and risk getting run in to court falling on the sword for Hillary.
Why is it okay for our top state department officials to use unsecure email accounts for our nation’s business at all?
Does the filth ever end from these scumbags??
Probably not until we have an opposition party....
So looks like Clinton is guilty of storing classified emails on non-government non-secure servers.
Never mind the fact SHE BROKE FEDERAL LAW.
Also, her 'ClintonEmail.com' domain was REGISTERED THE SAME DAY AS HER SENATE HEARING ON BENGHAZI.. Just a coinky dinky, I'm sure.
Now we know why they arrested and jailed ‘Guccifer’. He HACKED her private email account and probably saw some juicy stuff on Benghazi (that we’ll NEVER see). They had to shut him up. Just like the dude who made ‘that hateful anti-Islam video’...
Every body employed by the federal government and in DC is above the law unless and until one of them decides to tell the truth about what this regime is doing. I sense they all know that dead people no longer talk.
for later
The rule at our house is nothing goes in an email you wouldn’t want the world to know.
I can’t believe the press is not making more of an issue of the security breach this created.
Surely some in the GOP sent her emails? Non-Rat people must have known she had no official email address.
She was probably using e-mail address spoofing. But no doubt some government IT guys knew. Maybe far enough down the food chain they didn’t realize anything was wrong or were just frightened for their jobs/lives.
The White House says? Yes, let’s ask the most devious criminal organization in the country about it.
It was the day of her confirmation hearings.
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