Hillary Clinton used own email server

[The Comrade]

unless she has some scrubbing her harddrives for her and unless the people looking at her emails now are using digital forensics to recover stuff we wouldn't know what was deleted on a government email account either.

[Southern Dad]

[spacemonkey]

[The Comrade]

[Southern Dad]

In addition, if her emails were on a government server she wouldn't get to determine what is relevant and what is not. Hillary Clinton wanted control of these emails. Using this personal server, she got that. Big question is does she get a pass. Are the democrats willing to overlook it? I think that they are.

[Spider]

What exactly is there to overlook? So far there is zero indication of wrongdoing.

Honestly, I think government officials are nuts to be using email at all these days. If security is such a nightmare that they have to set up their own clandestine servers...then surely they should work something else out.

[uebermann]

[Spider]

I think it does matter. Right now we're trying to flog someone for what they might or mightn't have done.

As for transparency...its a unicorn. We've never had a meaningful window into the paperwork of government...except the stuff they wanted to share. And anything truly damning wouldn't be recorded anyways. Not everyone is as stupid as Nixon. Just because we have electronic correspondence now doesn't really change anything.

I'm not pleased by this either, to be sure. But really...I don't like this road we so quickly go down, where even the smallest bit of privacy is met with an immediate "WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?!" I don't buy for a minute it was merely ease of use. She knew she was the target of half the country (and who knows how many international actors) in search of something to swiftboat her with. I'm betting she considered this a security measure, such as it is.

[spacemonkey]

The bottom line is she did not follow the rules. Do we really want a President that does not follow the rules. We are kinda dealing with one like that now.

[Spider]