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In reply to the discussion: Andrea Mitchell escorted out of room where SoS Tillerson was having a meeting. [View all]karynnj
(60,978 posts)Kerry, from day one as Secretary of State used State.gov. He also put in place a procedure where if someone sent him email on his personal email (many of his peers knew him for decades), he would respond on using state.gov. In addition, to avoid losing anything, his staff regularly checked his personal email and archived anything deemed work related at the State Department. This is FAR from what HRC did. I do not know what the law for Indiana was - but I doubt he was supposed to be using a private account.
Note the biggest problem I have was that she did not archive the work email. She returned it only when the Obama SD fought for it about a year and a half after she left. That is better than Colin Powell, who used a private account (not a private server) but archived nothing - and failed to save it personally. Not to mention, as Comey and the SD IG both agreed HRC did not break any laws. However, there was POLITICAL DAMAGE because she did break Obama administration practices by not archiving her email.
There is no question that EVERYTHING about the Trump administration is worse -- I am certainly not suggesting that HRC was worse.