2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If Clinton Wants To Be President, She Needs To Explain How She Could Make Such A RECKLESS Decision [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...what Clinton did was NOT the same as what was previously done by other SOS's.
Powell did use private email on occasion for State business, but he primarily used his official State email account.
Kerry, who came after Clinton, used private email occasionally -- usually because someone would send an email to his personal account -- but he made it a point to forward all such emails to his official State email account. Among other things, this ensured that all of his State emails would be in one place -- which would facilitate FOIA requests, among other things.
ONLY Hillary Clinton had her own private server in her private home and used her private email accounts from that server to conduct ALL of her State business. Furthermore, ONLY Hillary Clinton insisted on using her unsecured Blackberry, even after being warned specifically about the security problems of the device.
You can argue that she did nothing wrong, if you like. But you cannot truthfully argue that she only did what other SOS's did. "You are entitled to your own opinion; you are not entitled to your own facts."
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