We have only Hillary’s word for it that they were private.
Deleting the e-mails is very likely a felony.
They were all supposed to be turned over to the State Department.
In a word, Hillary and her staff don’t get to decide on their own what to keep and to delete.
The law? Pshaw, that’s for the Little People.
No secretary of state has ever been crazy enough to route the entire corpus of their electronic communications - official and unofficial - through a server they owned personally, thereby commingling the two types of information.
There’s a good chance the legal framework for protecting the State Department’s communications was created without ever anticipating this situation.
For that reason, Hillary’s legal team will be able to tie this issue up in court, arguing every semicolon and comma, until the end of time.
The fact that this wasn’t noticed or commented on until now, by even one of the thousands of people who must have communicated with Mrs. Clingon during the six years of her tenure as Secretary of State, is almost unbelievable as well.