Everyone is being banboozled by this fake number. I'm surprised Mark is falling prey to it.
Other reports are more specific about Hillary having only 30,000 business e-mails as SoS. Not clear how many have been released or seen by anyone.
Mark makes the same mistake just about every other commentator I’ve seen on this has done regarding the 55,000 “pages” of emails. Unless each individual email is only one page, this represents a hell of a lot less email than it sounds like. I’d be surprised it it represents more than 10k email, and it’s probably a lot less than that. Hell, just one email forwarded with a pdf attachment of some document could easily be hundreds of “pages” long.
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Excellent observation. If she was mailing copies of the Obamacare bill, that would only be a couple of dozen emails.
No, he caught it:
And, while 55,000 sounds like a lot, it boils down to fewer than 38 a day for a four-year term. The average person in work has over 120 business-related emails a day. So Hillary's 55,000 sounds a little on the low side.
I was the email administrator for senior staff at a state university. Four years of emails - remember, this is incoming as well as outgoing - ranked in the gigabytes per user, and that isn't even counting the administrative assistants who handled the bulk of the correspondence, who were much higher. It boils down to this: Hillary is lying, lying big, and daring anyone in the government to contradict her.
Aside from the truly shocking notion that the third highest official in the country was conducting official business through a privately-owned and administered toy, there is the realization that quite a few people died as a result of the information in the contents of the traffic. This is so callous, so arrogant, so openly contemptuous of her position and its responsibilities, that it is difficult and very uncomfortable to contemplate being daily practice for any office-holder, much less the Secretary of State. And the further notion that she fired senior staff for doing exactly the same thing is downright insulting.
Steyn was right in quoting Dalrymple on the topic. Her behavior is intended to send the message "Sure I did it and there isn't anything you can do about it." It is a message intended to illustrate the power relationship she intends to impress on inferiors, to degrade, to humiliate. And the miserable, toadying wretches in Congress haven't the courage to do so much as squeak.