Having read through the Mother Jones Excerpts from the FBI's Report on Hillary's email,
I'd like to provide one explanation for why Hillary may have used 8 Blackberries during her tenure as SoS.
The Mother Jones excerpts mentioned about not being able to bring Blackberries into SCIFs and that Hillary could not bring one into her normal workplace because it was a SCIF so she had to store it in another location which was deemed acceptable. This would also have been true as she visited other secure places outside of her own workplace. My guess is that Hillary visited a lot of other secure places outside of her own workplace where she might have had to leave her Blackberry outside. As a woman who went to many meetings at locations outside of my own secure workplace, we would have to leave our cell phones outside. Some places provided little storage boxes where you could secure your phone outside the meeting room, usually with a combo lock on it. Sometimes there were enough to go around for everyone attending the meeting; sometimes there were not. Sometimes the area was used by others besides those who attended the meetings. As a woman who carried a purse, which would have been the normal place for my cell phone, I sometimes had to leave my phone outside a conference room. And I admit that on occasion, I forgot to retrieve my cell phone when the meeting was over. The reasons varied, but the most common reason was, I simply forgot it. When the meeting is over, everyone is gathered around the area where we stored the cell phones somewhere outside the meeting. Because of my position, I was always one of the last to leave, because I was always usually involved in discussions which only involved a few of the attendees and we stayed behind. Men usually only carry their phone and usually in their pocket so they normally don't forget theirs or miss it when they don't have it on them. I had a purse with me almost always, which normally was where I kept my cell phone, except when I was in a secure location, plus I always had agenda items/notes for the meeting, or information that I was passing on to someone whom I would have been expecting to see at the meeting, so I'd likely have a briefcase as well.
So after a lengthy meeting, you're hurrying to get out of there or maybe heading for the restroom and you forget to retrieve the cell phone. There were times when I didn't remember my phone until I was back at my workplace reaching in my purse to remove my cellphone to make sure I leave it outside the secure location, or I was at home, and looking to pull my phone out of my purse to place it on my charging station, only to discover I had left it behind. It happened more often than I care to remember. If it happened and I was 5-15 minutes away, I turned around and went back. If I was at home when the discovery was made, I retrieved it the next day. My guess is that Hillary had so many phones, because she probably left them behind as has happened to me. My guess is that if she left one behind one day, she had others available she could use in the interim, or she had a driver who could retrieve it, or turn the vehicle around. Hers were work issued. She could substitute one for another if she forgot one, until it could be retrieved. Mine was my personal phone. If I misplaced it, I'd be responsible for replacing it, therefore, I needed to retrieve it as soon as possible.
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