Posted on 03/03/2015 4:51:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House today repeatedly declined to say whether it was appropriate for Hillary Clinton to use solely her personal email account while serving as secretary of state.
"Very specific guidance has been given to agencies all across the government, which is specifically that employees in the Obama administration should use their official e-mail accounts when they're conducting official government business," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters at a livelier-than-usual press briefing.
In an exchange with ABC News, Earnest would not say whether or not Clinton violated that policy or broke the law by using only her personal account.
"I was not in a position to review Secretary Clinton's personal email. That was the responsibility of Secretary Clinton and her team," Earnest said. "They say that they turned over thousands of pages and thousands of emails ... and that is entirely consistent with the requirements of the Federal Records Act."
Earnest added that he could not say whether the White House was aware that Clinton was not conducting her business on an official email account.
"When there are situations in which personal email is used to conduct official U.S. business, those emails are official government records and should be turned over to the State Department, which is what I understand Secretary Clinton's team has done," he said.
Earnest said he did not know if any other Cabinet secretaries are using only their personal email accounts and referred reporters to the individual agencies.
The Records Act is very clear about the requirement for all government official’s official mail being archived. Especially for cabinet officers, members of the senior executive service and general officers.
The law doesn’t exist anymore.
It would be “unexpected” if “the White House’s” shyster lawyers decided that she did break the law. Keep your fingers crossed.
Idiots. Obviously the WH emailed[to her private account] Mrs. Clinton at times during her time at State.
Well, the law says she did, but Obama doesn’t follow the law, so anything goes with this bunch of crooks.
the female director of EPA, or was it Dept of Labor?, also ueed her personal e-mail and had to resign.
It is a criminal offense, but DOJ ignores. Laughs!
If they admit that she is guilty of a crime would it not stand to reason that they received some of those emails from the private email source and are complicit?
I would bet the WH told her to do this. Obama may have been setting her up, of course, but I think it was really because he had no intention of letting her be a real Secretary of State (since one of the reasons she was always off partying in Brazil or wherever was that Obama never let her go on any serious visits, and only summoned her into the public eye when he didn’t want to take the heat for something).
He didn’t want any official connection with her and told her to set up a private account. There’s no way a Secretary of State would have done this otherwise.
She would certainly have been fine with it, of course, because the Clintons have always been weird and secretive, but also because she seems to have been genuinely intimidated by Bambi.
Criminals protecting criminals. Nothing new.
Why should they, that would be the pot calling the ketel back.
You don’t think The Won or some of his commie ilk emailed her at some point or even got an email from her? Of course they knew.
“Broke the law”? What difference does it make?
Two words
Obama’s Blackberry
Gee...do ya think no one happened to notice that all her emails were from a private address?
Email exchanges between Obama and Clinton pertaining to Fast and Furious, as well as Benghazi should be very telling.
” Obama’s Blackberry”
Get out of jail free card.
spoofed e-mail return address - had to be
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
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