2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So why did SoS Clinton have a system set up outside [View all]karynnj
(60,740 posts)The fact is she was told she could NOT use a blackberry - so, no, she was not always allowed to do so for work. (Obviously, if she wanted a blackberry for personal calls, no one would have cared.)
Not to mention, if that was the SOLE reason -- and it is pretty lame, she could have insured that the SD had all her email. Imagine, she, first, had her tech person set up TWO accounts for her on her server - one for work, one for business. Then had the tech person, move all her incoming and outgoing email to a State.Gov account - say at the end of every week or month.
That would have assured that the FOIA requests and the Congressional inquiries had everything they needed. Had that happened, there likely never would have been any public knowledge that she did this. Rules could be written to assure that no one else did the same - though this is such a strange thing to do that I doubt any future SoS would have thought to do so.
I resent what she did because her selfish action could ultimately cast shadows on the reputations of Obama and Kerry, both better people than the Clintons.