server instead of .gov to investigating if anything was classified. The first issue was that some of what should decades from now be official record COULD be missing as even when she left office, there was no process initiated to send all work related emails to the State Department.
The State IG looked into it from that perspective. From memory, he also looked at the way Albright, Powell, Condi Rice, and then SOS John Kerry handled their NON CLASSIFIED emails. ( Classified messages were not supposed to go to .gov and were supposed to go by secure methods) The conclusion, email had gone from a rare way to communicate within government to the norm. In essence, HRC was the first SOS who regularly used email for NON CLASSIFIED material. Rice did not use email, Powell had set up an intranet and used email for nonclassified State Department messages. Albright rarely used email. From the moment he became SOS, Kerry was given a .gov account which he used (I would guess at the request of the Obama administration.) He also had a process where a SD staffer regularly sent any email sent to his personal email to the .gov account. As many officials, US and otherwise, knew him for decades, that sometimes happened. What this shows is the Obama administration over time STRENGTHENED its policies.
There have been no investigations into Tillerson and Pompeo ... not to mention, both Ivanka and Jared Kushner, who could not get a security clear - unlike Hillary Clinton - used personal emails.
The takeaways of the State Department IG were that none of the SOS before HRC did anything more than she did to retain and archive NON classified emails. In addition, the Clinton server comingled personal and government emails. ( Even a young Congressional staffer I know routinely travels with a government phone and a personal phone and often 2 laptops.) As said above, it is clear standards on government emails have become stronger over time.
When the issue first arose, HRC all the emails to the State Department asking them, in the name of transparency, to make them all public online. This led to an enormous task where qualified SD people had to review each email and redact anything that should not be public. This was a demanding, time consuming process where they were told to publish at least so many emails a month. That led to the monthly stories, reviving the broader story and leading to the news media looking for anything that could go viral. In that process, the SD after the fact round the very small number of emails that should have been classified, though they were not marked as such and they were sent to her. Had she used .gov they STILL would have been in a not sufficiently secure account.
Obviously, this is not even close to what Trump did taking plainly marked, highly classified documents to a non secure Florida club.
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