Posted on 09/30/2015 6:39:06 PM PDT by markomalley
White House Chief of Staff Valerie Jarrett admitted Wednesday that the White House had issued guidance to cabinet secretaries recommending they use government email for official business—guidance that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ultimately ignored.
“Weren’t there guidelines from the White House to all cabinet secretaries to use government email?” MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell asked Jarrett at an event sponsored by the Aspen Institute.
“Well, yes there were. Yeah, absolutely,” Jarrett said.
“Obviously, we want to make sure we preserve all government records, so there was guidance given that government business should be done on government emails and that if you did use a private email it should be turned over,” Jarrett said.
Jarrett then offered a partial defense of Clinton’s behavior.
“She’s working hard to comply with making sure everything is pursuant to the Federal Records Act,” Jarrett said.
Clinton did not turn over emails from her private account until December 2014, two years after her tenure as secretary of state concluded and two months after the State Department sent her a letter asking for her emails.
When Clinton did turn over her emails, she did so at the request of the State Department, not on her own initiative—and only after permanently (or rather, “permanently”) deleting tens of thousands of emails from the private server.
The State Department received 55,000 pages of emails from Clinton. The emails were printed hard copies that were not digitally searchable, a lawyerly move many think was an attempt to stymie investigators and Freedom of Information Act requests.
The Clinton camp maintained control of Clinton’s private server until it was seized by the FBI as part of an ongoing investigation into the classified information on Clinton’s server.
The problem with watching two scorpions in a bottle is that one of them lives.
This is nonsense.
The Secretary of State CAN NOT DO THE JOB WITHOUT CLASSIFIED DATA!!!!
Classified data can ONLY (Legally) be accessed on GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS!!!!
Removing the date, altering the markings, and loading it onto unsecured machines are each a FELONY!!!
You seem to think that Obama hired Hillary to be the Secretary of State. He basically hired the Clinton Foundation to be the Secretary of State, and the Clinton Foundation performed the function as required by their ‘hosts’ (note, not the US gov’t, not US citizens, or the President)...but their supporters and those who pay into the Clinton Foundation.
Since no foundation operates with secure email or servers, it’s not required. The Clinton Foundation needs to ensure all of it’s participants can read and grasp their function within the foundation and it’s mission.
When Hillary is elected (in a fantasy world of course)....you are not electing Hillary....but instead the Clinton Foundation.
I don’t think it’s a tear she is squeezing out...
The Regime uses the word "obviously" as a (inadvertent ?) signal they are lying.
Deadly Persian Serpent.
I know how to deal with rattlesnakes. This one is different. More poisonous and cunning. Pure EVIL!
Very strange relationship with Barry, too. Like he sees her as a surrogate mom ...
The mask is off, the face is evil.
And she is NOT white. Headshake
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