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Clinton had no official State Dept. email address


If an official chooses to conduct official business via private email then that email becomes an official record.
 
which is why she released 55,000 pages of emails upon request.

No...Actually not. Those are sanitized emails already in possession of the state department....not all the emails on her personal account.
 
How do you know this? Because she said she did? What is there to stop her from not sending emails that to state that make her look bad?
 
Do you have any proof she isn't preserving her emails?

Do you have any proof that he is preserving her emails? That's the problem. If she were using an official government address, everything would be preserved and backed up as Lois Lerner eventually found out. In Hillary's case, having the email server at her home allows her to delete at will anything that would be embarrassing or possibly get her in legal trouble.
 

Yeah, and my understanding is that FSO Maxwell was fired because he witnessed the separation of documents related to Benghazi into potentially damaging ones and those that were not. Those that were not considered damaging were forwarded to the ARB. Nice, huh? What a set up. She will have to answer questions - most likely until she withdraws from public life, at the very least. That's my hope, anyway. Ethics have become a short sell commodity.
 

Just remember: deleted is not deleted.
 
I already showed you.
No you havent. You just made a claim. I asked you to provide the sources..

I underlined and bolded the relevant parts even.
No you underlined and bolded 2 words.

Nothing in here.. Pretty much just states, the clinton administration is committed to keeping openness and that all federal agencies need to keep the openness, and then something about speeding up FOI requests..

Again nothing here that backs up your claim. Something about repealing the defense departments 1981 guidelins, doing a review of the FOI process, and addressing teh "backlog" of FOI requets..
Nope still didnt break this act either.

She still didnt violate this... Its the same act you linked above.

This act actually shows she didnt break the law, because the revised portion wasnt passed until she was out of office in 2014, and she left office in 2013. Lets say this bill was enacted before she left office, then yes she would of broke the law. But since this revised bill passed after she left office she didnt break the law.
 

But why would I care about penalties when I can't find any part of the law she violated, and no one will point me to the relevant section and then say how that section proves she's not in compliance.
 
Are you kidding? Was it not you that used a "Banter" web site, with a far leftests opinion on the subject to reply to me earlier? Oh I see, your own standards don't apply to you though do they?

Did I "blindly" follow them? No. I actually read the bills she was accused of breaking, and if you read them, it shows she did not break the law.
 

In other words, "I dont like Hillary so she broke the law"
 

Perhaps some defenders are, but the reason the some of us are discussing 'legalities' is the articles and now you guys are making allegations of law breaking and keep getting stumped on what section of any law that she did violate.
 
Not when the email server was at the Clinton residence where she or one of her goons could simply delete any email she would consider harmful to her.

You're a couple of days behind the news - no one has any clue where the server is, but it's about a 99.999% probability it ain't in her basement. That AP story that alleged that was laughably sloppy - it assumed that because the bills went to her house the server was at her house.
 
Perhaps some defenders are, but the reason the some of us are discussing 'legalities' is the articles and now you guys are making allegations of law breaking and keep getting stumped on what section of any law that she did violate.

I'm not hung up. The law requires chain of custody, no federal data on private systems, no classified data on an private network, in depth system logging, federal archive of all official communications, and I could go on, data transparency (no hiding data), no destruction of federal data. She broke all of those by putting state department emails on a private server.
 
Perhaps some defenders are, but the reason the some of us are discussing 'legalities' is the articles and now you guys are making allegations of law breaking and keep getting stumped on what section of any law that she did violate.

The relevant part of the Federal Records Act has been posted several times.
 
How lucky for wench Hillary. However she still broke the law.
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"she broke the law even though the law that regulates private email use by federal employees was enacted after she left federal office"
 
But why would I care about penalties when I can't find any part of the law she violated, and no one will point me to the relevant section and then say how that section proves she's not in compliance.

That's not the issue - never was. Why do you think Bush et. al. were never cited for any violations? It's not because they didn't violate the law. They did.
 

Whether it was in her house or at a huge private data farm, " what difference does it make " ?
 
:lamo
"she broke the law even though the law that regulates private email use by federal employees was enacted after she left federal office"

The federal law applies to all official communications regardless of format.
 
Hillary Clinton Still Doesn't Get It - Ron Fournier, National Journal

". . . . If she wants us to see her email, Clinton should turn over every word written on her dark account(s) for independent vetting. Let somebody the public trusts decide which emails are truly private and which ones belong to the public.

Like everything else about the response to this controversy, Clinton's tweet is reminiscent of the 1990s, when her husband's White House overcame its wrongdoing by denying the truth, blaming Republicans, and demonizing and bullying the media. It's a shameless script, unbecoming of a historic figure who could be our next president – and jarringly inappropriate for these times.


In the 15 years since Bill Clinton left office, the internet has made almost everybody a researcher and a journalist—equipped to judge wrongdoing for themselves and insist upon accountability. We can now spot the lies ourselves, stand up to bullies, and remind our leaders that two wrongs don't make a right. The actions of Hillary Clinton and her team raise the question: Is she trapped on the wrong side of the bridge to the 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century?
This is part of a pattern of bad behavior. My former employer, The Associated Press said Wednesday that it was considering legal action over years of stonewalling its requests for government documents covering Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. The AP has sought her full schedules and calendars and for details on the State Department's decision to grant a special position to a longtime Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, among other documents, the New York Times, reported. The oldest AP request was made in March 2010. . . . "
 
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