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In reply to the discussion: "Secretary Kerry is the first Secretary of State to rely primarily on a state.gov email account." [View all]pnwmom
(108,976 posts)since it was passed after she left office.
The only thing that matters is what the law said while she was in office and you've provided no evidence, other than a very sloppily written NYTimes article, about any details of an archiving requirement.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/03/1368297/-The-New-York-Times-Blows-It-With-Misleading-Hit-Job-on-Clinton-Emails?detail=email#
Now that you know this, carefully read that second section from the original Times piece again and take note of the journalistic sleight of hand: "Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act."
Catch that? To actually be damning, the words "at the time" would have to be at the end of the sentence: "Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers, as required by the Federal Records Act at the time."
Obviously, had the Times written that, they would have been lying instead of merely insinuating.