Random thoughts on Clinton's email server

[tandem5]

14. You understand that these are separate topics, right?

The quote you cite is in reference to the topic of document preservation under the FOIA. Record-keeping and its rules and regulations are discreet topics unrelated to the other subjects encompassed by "Clinton's emails." It has very little to do with whether or not she was "allowed" to run a private email server (another discreet topic). It has little to do with the topic of classified information, retroactive or otherwise and by extension any national security issues.

Say for instance that she followed the guidelines of the Records act to the letter. Specifically say that she printed out every government related email and filed it in a box (boxes) to be handed over at the end of her term. Then the above criticism that you quoted would no longer apply. However, if she kept this box in her house then all the separate security concerns voiced about the server could be applied to that box of papers. People could ask whether it was proper for her to store a box of material that was deemed to have contained retroactively sensitive material at her home. Was the box properly secured? Is a box located at a government office more secure than one located at a residence?

I only point this out to highlight how the separate subjects under "Clinton's emails" relate and don't relate.