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.
That makes it even more obvious of her need to HIDE her dealings from the public. Thanks.
Yes, it does.
Uh, aren’t these gov’t-owned computers? Even the most rinky-dink companies have strict policies about sending personal email from corporate computers. And I’m guessing that few of those have STATE SECRETS on them!
This stinks to high Heaven, like all the other ‘non-scandals’ that infest this administration from top to bottom.
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She didn’t make a mistake. It was intentional, and she again broke the law.
Hillary is NOT the solution to ANYTHING... Hillary is part of the PROBLEM.
So she can pick and choose which ones she wants to release, yeah we are that stupid, what a farce.
And Prince Andrew of Gnu Yak is following in the Regime’s footsteps, auto deleting all State E-mail after three months...no matter what.
No. She registered her own private domain just for her email. That means that those emails were handled by a mail server outside of the governments email system. It means it was handled by a privately owned and managed mail server. I think there needs to be an investigation into who owns and operated that server or servers. They would have had access to all of her emails, and I think we ought to know if those people were properly vetted and how secure that server and those emails are, and whether they can produce copies of them in resonse to a subpoena.
Note that Earnest did not address the law(s) broken by Killary, only that her staff “did what was right.” As if that excuses this blatant breaking of the law.
I’m sure Killary’s staff has made sure that any incriminating emails in the private account will never see the light of day.
It surprises me that Killary got away with this for as long as she did.
Highly probable that she had her own private email server actually owned and controlled by her and her minions - having it’s own hard drives, backup drives and tape drives - all in their actual possession so no one else could ever lay their hands on them.
I cannot imagine her using any commercial firm’s servers for her own email - she had to have total control.
Could even be that everything on her own machines was encrypted for her own security. Guccifer would know - but he ain’t talkin’.....
Likely all that date is either well-hidden but under their control where gov. could never touch it - or possibly has been destroyed.
I was a former Exec. VP of an Internet Service Provider.......
I understand that part of it. My questions pertained to the actual computer on which she was reading and writing email. Was that computer owned by her or by the US government?
Doing what you describe with her government communications is a crime in and of itself.
I haven't heard. But even if it was a government computer, and was being backed up, there's no guarantee there was any email stored on it.
55,000 pages, did they print them off? How useless.
I would expect nothing less from these lawless criminals.
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