RTFormer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might have violated a federal law during her four years in office after conducting all of her state business using a private e-mail account instead of an official State Department domain.
What is a surprising is that the State Department never bothered to create an account for Clinton, The New York Times reported. Furthermore, her staff did not abide by the Federal Records Act, which requires government employees to preserve correspondence on departmental servers. Letters and emails by federal officials are considered government property and should thus remain in the public sphere, not private emails, so they can be used in the National Archives.
Only two months ago, in response to a new State Department federal record-keeping audit, Clinton’s advisers were forced to analyze thousands of personal emails. How many emails were in Clinton’s account is not clear, but as a result her aids turned over some 55,000 pages of emails that were selectively submitted to the authorities by her former staff.
Hillary Clinton used personal email as Secretary of State – New York Daily News http://t.co/TdnZo4eZI6 pic.twitter.com/CgSLCwKc77
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According to Clinton’s spokesman, Nick Merrill, the former First Lady – and potential 2016 presidential candidate – defended her use of a personal account, claiming the 67-year-old is complying with the“letter and spirit of the rules.”
Merrill said that because the former secretary of state had been corresponding with other State Department officials at their government accounts, she had “every expectation they would be retained.”Nothing was mentioned about her correspondence with world leaders who do not use a state.gov account.
“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario – short of nuclear winter – where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath told NYT.
My Fellow Americans:
Hillary “Butcher Of Bengahzi” Clinton, may have broken the law when she had US Ambassador Stevens killed, especially while he was conducting an illegal transfer of Stinger Surface-To-Air Anti-Aircrft Missiles to known International CIA Terrorists (… Al-Qaeda) on behalf of the State Dep’t that Hillary was in charge of.
Well,.. obviously the use of a “personal email” is much more serious crime than any of the acts if International Terrorism, Sedition or Treason she has committed on a daily basis for the last 4+ decades of her life.
JD – US Marines – Well,… I’m sure the Butcher-Of-Bengahzi will receive a “stern” reprimand about this whole email business!
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I was thinking the same thing JD. Considering the trail of dead bodies the Clintons left on their quest for power, this email fiasco is reminicesant of jailing Capone for tax evasion.
Hi Frank,
Yyyyyeeeaaapppp!
That about sums it up.
(The Sonny & Cher song, “The Beat Goes On”, playing in the background to Franks’ comment…..
JD – US Marines – Nothing to see here people,.. Hillary Clinton, just another International Terrorist, getting away with mass-murder, war-crimes, crimes against humanity, and every other form of debauchary and perversion,….. move along,… move along……
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kill the hill