Anyone recall the level of media scrutiny for the millions of emails Bush-Cheney-Rove 'lost'?

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59. How do we "KNOW" she preserved all of her State Department emails?...

I'm not saying that she did or she didn't. But not having government entity oversight over her private email servers means quite correctly that we DO NOT KNOW whether she's giving all of her emails to the State Department.

Even if she's doing everything properly, working outside the government systems of IT will open up her to that criticism, and you can bet the right will push that line of thinking.

Now, if she's concerned about the government based systems having problems such as NSA spying, spying by opposing party operatives, just problems with quality, etc. then she should be (or have made that an issue at the time she moved her mail in to that private domain) as something that needed fixing. That way, if there are legitimate reasons for her having moved her professional email off of publicly accountable servers, then she could be on record that this is the problem that needs fixing, and perhaps this news coming to light would highlight those issues needing to be fixed.

All we are doing is helping the narrative that politicians like her can't be trusted that the right wants.

And helping the notion that even Democrats don't trust government run infrastructure, which is why we need to privatize everything, because government run installations are inherently not functioning well.

And if it is NSA that is causing this problem, it would probably fuel the priorities of the Republicans that the government spying programs are the only things worth expanding, and that all other government institutions that are victims to intelligence agency spying in an abusive way should be phased out for private systems.

We should be using what happened here not to focus on critiquing Hillary Clinton's motives for doing this, which we don't really know, but as a reason why we should be fixing the problems that have even Democrats go away from government infrastructure and its oversight.

Those that are corrupt, who will likely be protected when those who aren't will be targeted in the press as using private email in a corrupt fashion, want this too, as it legitimizes their desire to use private email and other IT infrastructure to carry on more corrupt agendas without having it have as much scrutiny too.

Just think. If Governor Kitzhaber and his fiancee here in Oregon had moved ALL of their email communications to private servers too, then we probably still would have him as our governor, as Kitzhaber wouldn't have felt the need to order a mass of email purges that he did that lead to his being pressured to resign. Would Hillary Clinton have advised him to move all of his email on to a private server the way she did? That would be an interesting question to ask her.