2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So why did SoS Clinton have a system set up outside [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)At this point, every email she designated as work related has been made public, except for a few too secret. Consider that very few would EVER have been made public due to FOIA if they were always on the SD system. Nothing in them has risen to level of the story of setting up this unique private sever on which she wrote SD emails.
Note that it might have been possible had there been no controversy in her whole term that the system would never have been known. The reason it became known was they found very few emails meeting the Congressional inquiries and FOIA queries.
It seems like it took almost a year after HRC left for the SD FOIA people to realize and tell higher level people in the SD that they were missing HRC's emails. This sounds like a long time, but remember that HRC in first speaking of the server still was saying email was being captured by State.gov because she sent it to state.gov accounts. (Note that you don't have to be a genius to consider that had she actually created a state.gov account, she could have copied all her emails to that account - meaning the SD would have had a full record of everything she wrote (though obviously, unless all who were given her email were told to allow send to the SD account, the mail to her would not all be captured) In fact, she should have given the SD the email when she left -- not two years later.