Hillary Clinton: Private Email Server 'Clearly Wasn't The Best Choice'

[Beta Male]

Source: HuffPost

Hillary Clinton said Wednesday her decision to use a private email server while serving as secretary of state was not "the best choice."

The Democratic presidential candidate has faced scrutiny since a New York Times report revealed she had used a private email account throughout her time at the State Department. As the FBI investigates the server, which Clinton handed over earlier this month, the former secretary of state has maintained she never sent nor received classified messages with the account.

Clinton addressed the controversy while speaking to reporters in Iowa Wednesday.

"I know people have raised questions about my email use as secretary of state, and I understand why. I get it. " Clinton said. "So here’s what I want the American people to know. My use of personal email was allowed by the State Department. It clearly wasn’t the best choice. I should've used two emails: one personal, one for work, and I take responsibility for that decision. And I want to be as transparent as possible which is why I turned 55,000 pages, why I've turned over my server."

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[DJ13]

1. No shit?

[Tom28]

2. One personal, one for work.

Millions of Americans do this.

[apnu]

12. And yet tens of millions of Americans do not.

Where I work, as an IT person, 90% of my company blends work and personal email. I deal with tickets all the time about people trying to buy crap for non-work reasons and they want to know why the spam filter didn't deliver their receipt. Human beings don't like to have and manage more than one email address. Mostly because they're too lazy to compartmentalize their lives between "this is work time" and "this is personal time". Its all one big messy bucket from what I can tell. It leads to way more problems in the long run so that short term gratification can be achieved.

Also, HRC was confronted with the reality of heavy security and scrutiny with the SoS email system, so she went around all that stuff and ran a personal server because it was a convenient way to do things. There comes a point where IT security gets in the way of what the end-user needs/wants to do and the end-user will circumvent security because it annoys them.

Plus everybody knows the SoS has access to state secrets, many of which are off-the-record negotiations before things are official. Nobody want's that stuff saved and preserved in a Federal Government archive. Does anybody really think John Kerry's Iranian negotiations really were all on the record? Of course they weren't, Iran would have no motivation to negotiate if they thought every word and request would sit in a US archive just waiting for a records request. They'd never come to the table, if that was really the case.

So that's two ways Hillary finds herself in this situation. The other way she's here is the Republicans are making hay out of B.S. again. Because of what I stated above. Condi Rice and Colin Powell negotiated with foreign states off-the-record. We all know this, the GOP knows this, they're just making stuff up to stick to Hillary because she scares the shit out of them.

[Tom28]

13. :)

[Old Crow]

3. File that one under "Understatement of the Century" (N/T)

[murielm99]

4. Thank you for the very nice statement, Hillary.

You are going to be a great President.

[jalan48]

5. Maybe multi-tasking isn't one of her strengths.

[Psephos]

6. "I take responsibility for that decision."

Not by any real-world definition of the word.

"I want to be as transparent as possible."

Utter bullshit cynically stated because she knows a legion of rubes will believe anything she says.

"I turned over 55,000 pages."

At the last possible moment. On paper. So that it would be excruciatingly difficult to go through them all. Meanwhile, her lawyer got copies of them all on a USB drive.

"I've turned over my server."

Wiped clean using redundant overwrite tech by hired crypto experts. Nice. Chinese and Russian hackers ended up with a copy; we got squat.

She hurts my eardrums.

[OnyxCollie]

7. At the time, it seemed like a great idea.

When she was using the State Dept. to pressure the Haitian government to keep wages low for the benefit of the Clinton Foundation's donors.

[Live and Learn]

8. Hmmm, haven't we heard her say this before about other decisions?

Isn't making the best decisions what we are paying her for?

[Laser102]

9. She should have done what Powell told her to do. Erase the whole thing and be done with it.

If she didn't want the public to see them, she wouldn't be in this situation. She needs to stop apologizing for this shit and say it's done get over it!!! The only ones that still care are her enemies and who cares about them? Really, why bother? They are a waste of time and space.

[mmonk]

10. The real question is why.

[MBS]

11. yup. n/t

[Purveyor]

14. Neither are you Hillary, "best choice" that is... eom

[Yo_Mama]

15. She's addressing a non-issue as a misdirection.

There's no issue in commingling personal/private email, so long as the record-keeping is done properly, and so long as confidential information is not sent over an unprotected email server.