When Karl Rove deleted 22 million White House emails and the media yawned.

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114. No. Nixon was making that as a general claim. This relates to a specific procedure,

classification, and the laws that assign that authority to the Agency Head, and above that person, the President and the Vice President. (i.e., the Intelligence head doesn't get to veto decisions of the State head. They are equals, and often their classification decisions differ.)

If you care so much about FOIA, then you should be very grateful that Hillary used a private server and was able to produce almost all her work-related emails.

If she had followed the "rule" to use the .gov account, then virtually none of her emails would have been properly preserved, because the .gov system wasn't set up to preserve them.

In 2011, for example, only .006% of State Department emails on the .gov system were preserved. Only about .0004% in 2013.

https://oig.state.gov/system/files/isp-i-15-15.pdf

March 2015

What OIG Found

A 2009 upgrade in the Department of State’s system
facilitated the preservation of emails as official records.
However, Department of State employees have not
received adequate training or guidance on their
responsibilities for using those systems to preserve
“record emails.” In 2011, employees created 61,156
record emails out of more than a billion emails sent.
Employees created 41,749 record emails in 2013.

 Record email usage varies widely across bureaus and
missions. The Bureau of Administration needs to exercise
central oversight of the use of the record email function.