Secretary Clinton’s use of personal e-mail was consistent with the practice of other Secretaries

[Logical]

Secretary Clinton’s use of personal e-mail was consistent with the practice of other Secretaries of State!

That is all anyone needs to know!

[jonno99]

1. Wait - other SOS's had email servers in their own residences? nt

[DURHAM D]

4. No. They were at the RNC or they used hotmail. nt

[jonno99]

5. So iow - HRC's use was not consistent...nt

[DURHAM D]

17. Guess she should of asked for an RNC address.

[jonno99]

20. Yep, you & the OP are correct - her practice was totally consistant. Why can't everyone see that?

[4139]

8. ...and their top aides also used the secret server?

[DURHAM D]

18. What are you asking? nt

[pnwmom]

10. All of the concern now about classified vs. non-classified would apply

just as much if she'd used a .gov account instead of her personal account.

.gov accounts are not supposed to contain classified information either.

And there has been no evidence that her business emails were any less safe on her personal server than they would have on .gov, which has been hacked repeatedly over the years. In fact, no one has shown that her server was ever hacked.

[Fumesucker]

2. Mom! All the other kids are doing it!

>flounce<

[Logical]

11. Ahh, how cute, whining on the DU. nt

[Fumesucker]

14. Exactly, I was pointing out the whining nature of the OP

It's not fair, all the other secretaries of state got to have their private servers at home, why can't Hillary?

[Logical]

15. Adorable! nt

[DURHAM D]

3. and all other agency heads

[deaniac21]

6. Yeah,

that is the ticket!

[clydefrand]

7. If all Secretaries of State used unclassified

e-mail to send classified information, then they ALL were breaking the law. (BTW: Top Secret is NOT the highest classification. The highest term is, in itself, classified.)

[pnwmom]

12. And all the members of the Rethug-led House committee who have the same

retroactively classified material sitting on their non-classified computers -- because she sent it to them upon their request -- are in the same position.

People in glass houses . . .

[Octafish]

9. Why would the Secretaries need to do that?

Why wouldn't they like their government computer?

Do they fear being monitored by someone?

[pnwmom]

13. The system at the time was antiquated, and I read somewhere

that it couldn't be used at a distance.

If it took you hours to send an email through the .gov system, and you thought you had a better option, that had been used by your predecessors and other department heads, wouldn't you take it?

[Fumesucker]

19. Government is inefficient and slow and top administrators know there's nothing that can be done

That's why so many top Democrats know that privatizing government functions is really the way to go, the private sector is far far more efficient and much faster, I get Gmails from Australia in seconds and it doesn't cost me anything.

[DURHAM D]

16. LOL

Did the CIA ever apologize to the Senate for reading their email at .gov?

Meanwhile... Chelsea Manning is in jail for stealing over a quarter of a million communications from the State Department and dumping it at wikileaks. The State Department receives and sends classified info through some system (not .gov) that I don't know the name of. What I do know is that it goes through the DOD servers and that is how Chelsea had access to it.

Do you think the DOD reads all classified info even when they are not supposed to?

Also, do you think the Joint Chief of Staffs hack was on these same DOD servers? OPM?