Reminder: Public Officials Using Private Email Servers Is Indefensible

[w4rma]

Source: Motherboard

You don't have to be in the "Hillary for Prison" movement to understand that Clinton's use of a private email server is terrible for democracy.
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It’s dishonest

Save for a few exceptions (such as Congressional business), official government correspondence is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, a law that makes government information available for review by the public. It’s one of the strongest transparency tools journalists and the public have at their disposal, and, by using a private email address, government workers may be hoping to keep their emails secret from the public.
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It’s dangerous

Most of Clinton’s critics have honed in on the fact that Clinton was sending and receiving classified information using her private email server. This isn’t a surprise because it’s a felony to mishandle classified information, and the FBI did indeed find that Clinton sent or received 110 emails containing classified information.

But the takeaway here shouldn’t focus on what she was sending, it should focus on how she was sending and receiving emails and how she was storing them—the point being that no government employee should be doing any official business on an insecure email server, regardless of the content of those emails.
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Clinton’s legal saga is over, but this issue is going to continue to dog her until at least the election. At the first Democratic debate, Sanders said that he’d prefer if the election focused on the “real issues.” It’s true that Clinton’s email saga and security doesn’t really concern any normal Americans. But her use of a private email server shows such a clear lack of judgment that it’s insane this ever happened in the first place.

Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hillary-clinton-private-email-server-is-indefensible

[PJMcK]

1. But the State Department's system was unusable (n/t)

[w4rma]

2. I don't think that's true. (nt)

[PJMcK]

4. Secretary Clinton was unable to access her email while traveling

This was because the State Department's email system was incompatible with any portable devices Secretary Clinton would be using while she traveled overseas. Obviously, her job required that kind of travel. State Department and other officials advised her how to utilize the technology available to do her job. Ultimately, she's in the clear.

[Duckhunter935]

3. So nobody at state

Was using it then, that should be easy to prove.