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.
Yup. I nailed it yesterday. Only made sense.
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Fwk8oDHY
If this isn’t illegal, I don’t know what is! But let’s see if anything happens.......
Yup. See my post 41.......
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