I am off the Hillary bandwagon

[HereSince1628]

46. I don't know any other cabinet secretary who developed a private domain

including, if that turns out true, to involve a server in her residence.

The post-mortem on this cabbage peels things back in unusual ways, imo, and leaves way too much room for speculation of people for chinks to plunge daggers into.

The problem of government/public sector IT technology lagging behind improvements is decades old and very well known. Its a problem for many institutions who discount spending money on "clerical" items.

If crumby equipment/software impeded the Sec from doing her job, and she wanted to fix that with private equipment or service at her own cost, that's not a problem, per se, I know many people do this at their jobs particularly in higher education.

But she didn't have a job with the same security concerns and archiving requirements like the people I know in higher ed...

This problem wouldn't exist "if only" she had gotten a Cover-Your-Ass memo authorizing the private system to be created and used for her job including things like criteria for security, back-up archiving etc. Indeed, she could argue, from a strong position, that she donated her own money to make herself more effective in her job and that system probably did do that, among, unfortunately other tin-foil possibilities.

I know that's an 'if only'. But now we are going to waste money, time, and credibility trying to prove to people who don't want to believe that she has turned over everything that meets the definition of a federal record.