Hillary Clinton's Private Server... Laugh it off. Nothing to see here... move along please!

[Divernan]

8. This issue is about being tech savy;right wing concerns are policy/personality centered

I can empathize if she wasn't up to speed on the most current security risks with emails and servers, i.e., just didn't realize the risks involved - my problem is with her unilaterally and arbitrarily conducting her own subjective screening, deciding what to delete and what to turn over to be reviewed. And what were the qualifications of whomever she had actually do the screening and decide what to delete and what to turn over? It wasn't a State Department employee. So who was it?

Meanwhile, as quoted and cited below, "The State Department said on Thursday that 15 emails sent or received by Hillary Rodham Clinton were missing from records that she has turned over, raising new questions about whether she deleted work-related emails from the private account she used exclusively while in office."

I've been involved in commercial legal cases with over a dozen plaintiffs and defendants pointing fingers at each other. A massive document dump, in response to a discovery demand, such as HRC's release of 50,000 pages is a classic strategy - someone caught with one or more smoking gun documents buries it/them in tens of thousands of documents hoping the needle will never be found in the haystack. The theory is that the massive costs of and time required to plow through all these documents will push the parties to a settlement less expensive than a possible trial verdict. But it's far more risky, arrogant and just plain stupid to actually delete documents/emails, because there's always the chance that the other parties involved may release their copies. I've never seen a party caught doing this in a legal case.
But in fact that is just what's happened in this situation. Because now the State Dept. has identified 15 official State Dept. emails which are "missing" from HRC's document dump. HRC's response could be, well I was dealing with screening thousands of documents, and I missed a few. Of course, she didn't screen these herself, so the mistakes can be blamed on an employee.

It's not the initial decision to use her own private email account, it's the perceived cover-up. It was an attempted cover-up by Bill Clinton which resulted in his impeachment. "Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton

A federal judge has ordered the state department to make monthly partial releases of HRC's emails, and these releases will be continuing throughout the campaign, so this concern will be constantly in the news.

Last month, a federal judge ordered the State Department to release batches of Clinton's emails every 30 days through Jan 29, 2016 — just days before the Iowa caucuses; Tuesday's 1,925 emails totaling more than 3,000 pages were the inaugural release.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/07/01/419162524/13-emails-that-stood-out-from-the-latest-clinton-document-dump

(Headline) State Department Gets Libya Emails That Hillary Clinton Didn't Hand Over

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
June 25, 2015

WASHINGTON — The State Department said on Thursday that 15 emails sent or received by Hillary Rodham Clinton were missing from records that she has turned over, raising new questions about whether she deleted work-related emails from the private account she used exclusively while in office.

The disclosure appeared to open the door for Republicans on Capitol Hill to get more deeply involved in the issue. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who is running for president, said he planned to send a series of questions to the State Department about the missing emails and about why it allowed her to use the personal account.

Republicans said that the State Department’s statement was likely to increase pressure on the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, to subpoena the server in Mrs. Clinton’s home that housed the account.

Mrs. Clinton has said that she gave the State Department about 50,000 pages of emails that she deemed to be related to her work as secretary of state and deleted roughly the same number. She said the messages she deleted were personal, relating to topics like yoga, family vacations and her mother’s funeral.

Her longtime confidant and adviser Sidney Blumenthal, responding two weeks ago to a subpoena from the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, gave it dozens of emails he had exchanged with Mrs. Clinton when she was in office. Mr. Blumenthal did not work at the State Department at the time, but he routinely provided her with intelligence memos about Libya, some with dubious information, which Mrs. Clinton circulated to her deputies.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/us/state-dept-gets-libya-emails-that-clinton-didnt-hand-over.html?referrer=&_r=1