The NY Times reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, according to State Department officials. She may have violated federal requirements that officials' correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record.
Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. "It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business," said attorney Jason R. Baron. A spokesman for Clinton defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the "letter and spirit of the rules."
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Thursday March 05 2015, @01:53AM
I work at DoS and have had to go though the annual security briefings and test, which everyone else has to take as well. One of the most basic things they harp on is "don't include SBU, nor anything else DoS related in personal emails, facebook, twitter, etc." I would have liked to assume that that included the Secretary but apparently not.
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