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In reply to the discussion: CNN.Hillary Clinton Deleted All Emails From Server. [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,078 posts)But think of a similar situation: You're financial manager. You dump your personal money in with your client's money in a single account, without a specific tracking mechanism that identifies the money when it goes into the account as yours v. clients. You then take out a bunch of money and hand over the rest to your clients - telling them that you only took out yours.
No one has a right to your personal money. But but when you manage other people's money - and don't set up a tracking mechanism to track each deposit as it goes in, your clients have a right to some independent forensic accounting to make sure that all you've taken out is your money.
Clinton was doing the exact same thing with personal correspondence, and correspondence that belongs to the public.
NO ONE is complaining that she isn't entitled to privacy in her personal emails. The problem is that she made them public, at least to the extent necessary to reconstruct which ones were state department business, when she intentionally co-mingled with them with State Department emails.
Destroying the server, so no one ever has the ability to reconstruct them is inexcusable.