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Anyone who follows American politics will have heard of Hillary Clinton's email server. Rather than using an official State Department address, she chose to use a private server for her official email. Federal law requires all official email to be archived on government servers. Armchair lawyers have pointed out that it doesn't require the use of government servers to send and receive the email, but the archival requirement is clear. This requirement was clearly violated in this case: in response to a subpoena, Hillary Clinton's private staff extracted emails from her private server and turned them over to the government. The contents of the server itself were never made available to the government, and now she has had the server erased:
Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday.
“While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.
As Popehat tweeted:
@Popehat
I ask you, who among us hasn't wiped a server clean after its contents were requested by subpoena?
I naively wonder why she isn't in jail, but that's just me. Comments and views from those interested in American politics?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday March 30 2015, @04:39PM
She's a senior politician. Like everyone that's managed to get to that level, she's got masses of corruption in her closet. Same as Obama, Bush II, Clinton I, Bush I, the actor and the ones before. They are scum, it's the only way they get where they get. They also get immunity by being in that position (it's expensive to get a politician in place, you don't want something trivial like murdering a hooker to flush that money down the tubes)
Obama's fast rise from nobody probably caught some people out, but he ended up the same way pretty quickly (and while he was being brought under control there was plenty of distraction about birth certificates).
I find it amazing how people (or rather fox news) are complaining about a single decision which may have caused 2 deaths, but ignore the elephants in the room - for example the 1,000 americans a year who die because they (or their parents) didn't vaccinate them.
(Score: 1) by Fauxlosopher on Monday March 30 2015, @05:12PM
Your example is a wildly inappropriate comparison to government officials' behavior.
Parents almost never force their children's participation in association with them at gunpoint; in regards to governments and private individuals, government officials do.