One last emails post: the private server and the classified emails are completely unrelated

[Recursion]

Because I feel like a ton of people on the board simply don't get this.

Assuming she had kept her ordinary email account on State's servers, and the exact same emails had been sent, the legal situation is no different.

Have some ASCII art:
------------------------------------------------------------
| Public internet | State intranet | Classified network|
------------------A-----------------B-----------------------

I've marked the two network partitions as "A" and "B" there.

The legal liability comes with crossing partition B. It doesn't really matter what happens after that.

The private server is completely a red herring here; the legal liability would be the same if she had stayed on the government server. Guccifer still would have been able to read her emails to Blumenthal if she had stayed on the government server. Why do people keep conflating these two very different issues?

As a separate issue, it's possible that the SSL certificate issued to the server months after it started means they were reading webmail unsecured before that (it's equally possible they were using a self-signed certificate, which is more secure and what I would choose if I were setting up someone's mail server). But that's, again, a separate question.

[k8conant]

1. I think you're missing the FOIA issues here...

the private server kept the information away from the State Department. Hardly a red herring.


Put on your waders.

[Recursion]

2. Judicial Watch would have FOIA'd every single email she wrote anyways

And in the nature of things some of them wouldn't have been findable either.

[k8conant]

3. but she didn't turn them over when she left State

[Recursion]

4. And? Judicial Watch would have FOIA'd, some would have been lost. Some are always lost

It's government IT. The sinister allegations would be different but still there. The classified would still have been on an unsecure server.

[4139]

5. Wrong! The email were and are government property

She was required to archive them 1 month after any email was sent or received. Emails sent and recieved in January and February 2009 were supposed to have been archived in Febuary and March 2009.

PS: Hillary claims that the emails from January to mid-March 2009 were accidentally lost; those government email she says are lost forever. Those emails were government property and she was responsible for them.