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In reply to the discussion: Obama: Clinton’s Email Server Did Not Jeopardize National Security [View all]RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)the State Department.
However, neither of them actually implemented their own private email server or used an outside email account exclusively. Or (which naturally follows) had accounts on such a server that additional State Department personnel also used exclusively.
Apparently, Rice was very limited in her use of email during her time as SoS.
And Powell actually implemented a major 'modernization' of DoS IT in general. By the time of Hillary Clinton's assumption of the office, the technological capability for secure communications existed in the DoS infrastructure.
With a much more secure infrastructure in place than could be implemented with a private email server (at least, without a substantial security staff actively managing it), Sec. Clinton implemented a private email server and used it exclusively for official communications. That requires significant planning, effort, and money (unless nobody's actually minding the store). It had to be a distinct, conscious decision, paid for privately. That's what is what differentiates the situations. It makes no sense from an IT perspective.
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