Hillary Clinton also used iPad for e-mail

[karynnj]

75. Making the issue "Hillary had more than one device" actually helps Hillary

She easily wins that strawman issue. It boils down to what she said - she only wanted to carry ONE DEVICE. It is possible that she didn't even have the ipad when she decided on the system she chose - so even if the ipad has the ability to have multiple accounts, it doesn't matter.

The issue is more why did she commingle everything in one account. Once she decided to use her server, not the government account, she could have avoided this entire issue, IF:

1) She had separate accounts for government vs anything else. It was HER server, so she certainly had this ability. Any problems on the Blackberry seemed to be using Government Blackberries and adding a personal account. Given she went to the trouble of having her own server, the team that set that up could have set up a blackberry to get 2 or more email streams.

2) She immediately set up a procedure with the State Department for regular, scheduled transfer of copies of her government account's emails to the State Department. (Note - this would comply with regulations written for subordinates during her tenure.

It is almost certain that no laws were broken. However, this can be seen as being SECRETIVE (and NO, that is not a sexist word - even if Hillaryworld says it it). Where it edges into a grey area is that there is the potential that messages are missing that could have been subject to FOIA.

However, what has been revealed is that while there are likely long mandated processes for official letters, press releases, minute notes etc the State Department did not before or during the Clinton years develop clear policy on archiving emails. This is pretty startling as I can remember as a worker at a company regulated by the government, we regularly had to provide the government with all email relating to one project or another - and this was in the 1990s. I am glad that Kerry has the State Department Inspector General looking at this on a going forward basis - they need clear rules on this. Obviously, any rules developed for the future, don't apply to anyone who went before.

I don't think this issue will have any more impact than it already has. Note that the HRC vs various Republicans has not changed. There is only one poll I know of that shows it changed her favorability - the CBS one that asked specifically about the email problem as well as that question. I don't know the order in which those questions were asked, but I suspect the email question was asked first -- and that is why the results are so startling in their difference from all regular polls. If it was asked first, it was - in essence - a push poll. They provided negative information (in the form of the earlier question) and then asked the favorability question.

However, it is something that for many of us, flies in the face of what we consider good, open government.