I'm very sorry Hillary Clinton has a sad today.

[Bugenhagen]

220. Loaded question

I understand what you mean, but answering the question head on implies agreeing with the "incredibly premature" part.

Personally I don't care what email government officials use as long as it is open to FOIAs and public archiving. In the Bush white house, IIRC, staffers and officials were given privately supplied "off of radar" laptops to use with unofficial email addresses and so forth. We weren't angry because they broke the 2014 law. We were angry because we didn't trust them to not hide all kinds of nefarious skullduggery by bypassing official email. I think it is safe to say that the republicans are going to accuse Mrs. Clinton of N.S. as well.

To me that is the same issue as Hillary's unofficial email use. I.e. now a private party gets to decide what gets turned over in a records search, which leads to the "missing minutes on the Nixon tapes" scenario.

To me, the things done by our government in our names must be available to the public. If national security is an issue, a FOIA can be denied, but at least the record is there in case a later president changes his mind or 100 years go by or whatever. But I am skeptical when any public servant has the ability to erase the past.

So from my perspective (if you'll allow me to paraphrase your question my own way), this is an issue and I think it needs to be discussed. The republicans are going to use it against her, so even if you are a Hillary supporter you ought to want to be out front discussing it and putting it to bed, if you can, before she announces her candidacy.