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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton: Political journalists "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump" [View all]DallasNE
(8,019 posts)Question, how did her immediate predecessors handle government email.
Answer, both Rice and Powell used private email accounts.
Comey showed no interest in going after either Rice or Powell - why?
Division of responsibility, the IT professional is responsible for the security of the system and the end user (Hillary) is responsible for the content. The one issue on content is the deletion of those 30,000 emails.
Comey and the IT professional, when Comey realized he would likely plead the 5th he granted him immunity. This has always baffled me because this was the logical end of the investigation into the security issue. He was the big fish.
Comey caught a break, when Anthony Weiner's computer he shared with his wife showed a back-up file of Hillary's email server and it was from before Hillary deleted any of her email. Comey did find some of the deleted email. Comey released a statement on one such email and it covered what the two women were going to wear to an event both were attending that evening. Apparently all of the "new" email was of a personal nature, as Hillary had claimed.
The whole episode was improperly framed. Comey did nothing to set the record straight. The media had no interest in setting the record straight. Both Comey and the media have this hanging over their heads and need to set the record straight, with an apology to Hillary Clinton. It was all very shameful.