wait what did I just hear about the email system at the State Department?

[dsc]

I am watching the full interview of Hillary Clinton by Andrea Mitchell and about fell out of my chair. According to Andrea Mitchell, a report by the Inspector General in 2011 stated that the archives of the State Department only captured 61000 of a billion emails. Now remember one of the big reasons we are told that this email setup is such a problem is that we couldn't be sure the emails were captured since it wasn't a government address. Now we find out that in 2011, some four years ago, and after she had served for three years, this archive wasn't capturing government emails. (or to be fair, it was capturing less than one out of 100,000 of those emails). So in point of fact, if she had used a government email, kept her email box clean like I would bet she does (I so don't I would be the dream employee for archivists) then there would be no emails at all or only the ones after this report came out. I am just agog.

[BlueStateLib]

1. State Department 'finds' 81,000 emails in account of longtime Hillary Clinton adviser

State Department 'finds' 81,000 emails in account of longtime Hillary Clinton adviser two years after claiming they didn't exist

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3202547/State-Department-finds-81-000-emails-account-longtime-Hillary-Clinton-adviser-two-years-claiming-didn-t-exist.html#ixzz3kpCOmXwV

[dsc]

2. well that kind of is my point

apparently they don't archive well. Now some employees are like me and don't delete emails in a timely manner but most aren't. If the State Department isn't archiving or more accurately weren't archiving then I don't see what difference her server made aside from actually saving the email she deleted which the State Department apparently didn't do.

[Bonobo]

3. She did it BECAUSE she wanted her emails retained and knew the gov system wouldn't do it!

That's the ticket!

[Metric System]

4. You know that's not the point at all.

[dsc]

5. that isn't even close to what I am saying

but if this is true, and Ms. Mitchell was very specific here so I find it hard to believe she made it up out of whole cloth, then apparently many of her emails would have been lost had she used the state department server assuming she kept her inbox relatively clean.