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In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email: How to deal with deleting selected items in a large amount of email. [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)should have known better. As the secretary of state at the time the Wikileaks issue came to prominence AND as someone who appointed her own Cybersecurity specialist to the state department you'd think she would have been as well informed as just about any politician on security and the importance of it. It's not a "pass" for Gowdy, Jeb Bush or any other GOP clown that was also doing it. If any of them believe that it's not a big potential problem, then that shows questionable judgment in my opinion, and if they realize it could be a potential problem but feel the "benefits" outweigh the risks, than that's an even larger issue, because the single largest benefit of all this is that the politician has enormous control over all their correspondence when it comes to archives, FOIA requests and even subpoenas.
There's a difference between "following normal procedure" and not violating a policy. Setting up your own email server and controlling all your archives, while not violating any existing policy at the time, wasn't the standard or preferred practice for government officials either.