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In reply to the discussion: Most Official Emails Were Not Auto-Archived Until February (2015), Says State Department Official [View all]morningfog
(18,115 posts)5. She spoke with great certainty on this point, though.
She couldn't have known or thought they were being saved at the time she was sending them. This is all after the fact, cover you ass speak. And she got it wrong. If her advisers and herself are that poorly prepared for this, they are not ready for a presidential campaign. Or worse.
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morningfog
Mar 2015
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and most people aren't, it is assumed that their system personal are handling such things
still_one
Mar 2015
#4
Read the article. Dot gov emails were not retained automatically until last month.
morningfog
Mar 2015
#30
You have it ass backwards. They started with automatically retaining the Secretary's when Kerry
morningfog
Mar 2015
#38
It also blows a hole in the theory that it would have been better if she had used
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#67
You have to parse Hillary's words carefully. She said she did not SEND any classified information.
morningfog
Mar 2015
#33
Because in the current culture of security every blessed thing is restricted information.
LeftyMom
Mar 2015
#47
I'm beginning to think we need to start GoFundMe pages, or Kickstarter accounts
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Mar 2015
#57
Our system of government does not work on trust. It works on transparncy, accountablility
morningfog
Mar 2015
#11
Hey, I believe all politicians, Rep, Dem, US or other, but what does that get me?
delrem
Mar 2015
#13
Another point. The .gov emails are still in the State server, even if not automatically retained.
morningfog
Mar 2015
#40
Odd that they would auto-archive Kerry's emails the day he started, but there was no thought
TwilightGardener
Mar 2015
#14
It's extremely inconsistent and strange. Hillary operated under entirely different
TwilightGardener
Mar 2015
#24
They updated protocol the day Kerry was sworn in? It suddenly on that day became
TwilightGardener
Mar 2015
#39
If it's a written record of her daily business, though not necessarily classified or juicy stuff,
TwilightGardener
Mar 2015
#49
I don't think that's the same as 'archiving' in Federal records lingo though.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Mar 2015
#58