WRONG.dbackjon wrote:That is not what happened. Prior to 2014, there was no law against using personal email. Only that it be archived. Which it was.GannonFan wrote:
Technically speaking, the Presidential Records Act was passed in 1978, and at that time, included language such as "documentary materials … created by the President or his immediate staff.” In turn, the term documentary materials includes all books, correspondence, memorandums, documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, and motion pictures, including, but not
limited to, audio, audiovisual, or other electronic or mechanical recordations."
The ammendments you are referring to, which ammended the PRA and were passed in 2014, did not substantially alter the general idea that electronic correspondence needed to be archived or archivable, just clarified where it was to be kept.
I really don't care greatly as I think this is a pretty trivial thing unless she was using something really weak in terms of security, but it would appear to be a violation of the PRA, technically speaking.
There is no scandal. There is no impropriety. Just the typical right-wing media FAKE scandals.
1. Clinton was not the first Secretary to use a private email account. In fact, John Kerry is the first Secretary to use “a standard government email address,” according to The Washington Post.
2. Clinton turned over her emails to the State Department. It’s not clear whether her predecessors did the same.
3. The Times article says the “existence of Mrs. Clinton’s personal email account was discovered by a House committee investigating the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi.” This is incorrect. Gawker reported this first, in March 2013.
4. At the time Clinton was Secretary, the Federal Records Act didn’t require federal employees to use government accounts, only to preserve records of their communications. This, Clinton seems to have done.
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"Thousands of emails Hillary Clinton generated as secretary of state were not archived as official government records because she used a private email account to conduct State Department business, the State Department acknowledged Monday."
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You're parroting the donk line that Hillary Clinton’s emails to other State Department employees were being caught & archived. But that doesn't address the emails that she sent to other government departments, the White House, foreign leaders, friends, other Americans. Those people didn’t have State Department email accounts.,and the emails were not being caught in the State Department’s web because they were elsewhere.
WRONG on Kerry being the 1st. In the NBC link I posted above that you obviously didn't read:
"Rice "did not use her personal e-mail for official communication as Secretary" and instead exclusively used her State Department account, according to a top aide who did not want to be quoted publicly."
You're absolutely batshit.