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.....a bureaucratic detail. They matter for four reasons.
1. The State Department is not the private fiefdom of the Secretary.This rule breaking shows a fundamental disregard for her relationship to the government, our place in the world and her own sense of entitlement. One is reminded of the old admonition that power corrupts.
2. The Democratic workings of our Government mean nothing if there are not records of our behavior in foreign affairs. Historians and future SOS's and the President himself need to know exactly what is the record of events and decisions. What if, for example. we had no way to examine the real history of the Viet Nam war and McNamara's role in it? These records do not belong to her. They belong to us. That's what the Freedom of Information Act is all about.
3. Her simultaneous connection to the Clinton Foundation raises great suspicion. It forces the question---was the SOS hiding anything when it came to a possible intersection of the Foundation power and SOS power. This would be criminal.
4. Our national security was endangered. Did she care? Did she know it was a risk and choose her own agendas over even that?
It's not just a detail.