HAT TIP MICHELLE ZORNES!
Via the NYT
* * *
Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email
account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department
officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’
correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.
* "MAY HAVE...?!?!"
Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address
during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions
to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as
required by the Federal Records Act.
* THE RESPONSIBILITY WAS HERS - NOT "HER
AIDES." (AND LET'S NOT FORGET, FOLKS, HRC WAS A U.S. SENATOR PRIOR TO
BECOMING AMERICA'S MOST INCOMPETENT SECRETARY OF STATE! SHE KNEW THE RULES.)
It was only two months ago, in response to a new State
Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs.
Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails
and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000
pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the
secretary’s post in early 2013.
* SO BASICALLY CLINTON HAD "HER" PEOPLE DOING
HER PERSONAL WORK - HUNDREDS, PERHAPS THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF PAID EMPLOYMENT
DOING A JOB THAT WOULDN'T HAVE NEEDED TO BE DONE HAD SHE AND THEY BEEN
FOLLOWING THE RULES - THE LAW - IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to
current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and
government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach.
* REMEMBER SANDY BERGER, FOLKS? (IF NOT... TAKE A FEW
MOMENTS TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORIES...)
“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,” said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at
Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the
National Archives and Records Administration.
* AGAIN... FOLKS... AMERICA IS LITERALLY NO LONGER A
NATION UNDER THE RULE OF LAW - AT LEAST WHERE PEOPLE LIKE THE CLINTONS AND THE
OBAMAS ARE CONCERNED.
Under federal law...letters and emails written and
received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, are considered
government records and are supposed to be retained so that congressional
committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are
exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials.
Mrs. Clinton is not the first government official — or
first secretary of state — to use a personal email account on which to conduct
official business. But her exclusive use of her private email, for all of her
work, appears unusual, Mr. Baron said.
* CUTE. "APPEARS" TO BE "UNUSUAL."
GEEZUS...
The use of private email accounts is supposed to be
limited to emergencies, experts said, such as when an agency’s computer server
is not working. “I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives
when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal
email account for the transaction of government business,” said Mr. Baron, who
worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013.
* SO IS THE NYT CALLING FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TO BE
INDICTED? (LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE...) DOUBTFUL. BECAUSE AGAIN... THE CLINTONS
ARE ABOVE THE LAW... AND THE NYT IS FINE WITH THAT.
Regulations from the National Archives and Records
Administration at the time required that any emails sent or received from
personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency’s records. Mrs. Clinton
and her aides failed to do so.
* SO... WHEN SHOULD WE EXPECT THE NTY EDITORIAL
"VOICE" TO DEMAND HILLARY AND HER AIDES GO TO JAIL FOR DELIBERATELY
BREAKING FEDERAL LAW?
(*SMIRK*)
How many emails were in Mrs. Clinton’s account is not
clear, and neither is the process her advisers used to determine which ones
related to her work at the State Department before turning them over.
“It’s a shame it didn’t take place automatically when she
was secretary of state as it should have,” said Thomas S. Blanton, the director
of the National Security Archive, a group based at George Washington University
that advocates government transparency. “Someone in the State Department
deserves credit for taking the initiative to ask for the records back. Most of
the time it takes the threat of litigation and embarrassment.”
* OH, YES... "A SHAME."
(*SNORT*)
Mr. Blanton said high-level officials should operate as
President Obama does, emailing from a secure government account, with every
record preserved for historical purposes. “Personal emails are not secure,” he
said. “Senior officials should not be using them.”
Penalties for not complying with federal record-keeping
requirements are rare, because the National Archives has few enforcement
abilities.
* "FEW...???" HOW'BOUT INSTEAD OF THIS BULLSHIT
THE REPORTER/EDITOR DESCRIBE MRS. CLINTON'S WORST CASE LEGAL WOES
"IF" SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO ACTUALLY HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE?
It is not clear whether Mrs. Clinton’s private email
account included encryption or other security measures, given the sensitivity
of her diplomatic activity.
Mrs. Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry,
has used a government email account since taking over the role, and his
correspondence is being preserved contemporaneously as part of State Department
records, according to his aides.
Before the current regulations went into effect,
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005, used personal
email to communicate with American officials and ambassadors and foreign
leaders.
* BEFORE... BEFORE... BEFORE... THE... CURRENT...
REGULATIONS...!!!
* GOTTA LUV THE NYT! (NICE TRY...)
The existence of Mrs. Clinton’s personal email account
was discovered by a House committee investigating the attack on the American
Consulate in Benghazi as it sought correspondence between Mrs. Clinton and her
aides about the attack.
* YA CAN'T SUBPOENA WHAT DOESN'T EXIST... RIGHT?!
Two weeks ago, the State Department, after reviewing Mrs.
Clinton’s emails, provided the committee with about 300 emails — amounting to
roughly 900 pages — about the Benghazi attacks.
* FOLKS... GO THROUGH YOUR SAVED EMAILS... WHAT
PERCENTAGE IS SHEER GARBAGE vs. WHAT PERCENTAGE MIGHT YOU NOT WANT CERTAIN
PEOPLE EVER SEEING? (IN OTHER WORDS... IS THE NYT FRIGGIN' KIDDING...?!?!)
Mrs. Clinton and the committee declined to comment on the
contents of the emails or whether they will be made public.
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