HILLARY used a personal email account for all State Department official business. (John Kerry, Colin Powell)

[katzpaw]

"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."

"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.

“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,”

For four years nobody questioned her use of a personal email accoumt.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/03...?_r=0&referrer

[katzpaw]

"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."

[TheDusty]

I voted for defend, though I wouldn't say I defend it. I really just don't care.

Is something like this that big of a deal, really? If it's some policy violation, just tell her to forward what she has to an official email, and stop using it. The NSA probably has access to all that information anyway, so who cares? Personal or private email; the information is still shielded form the people.

This seems like a non-issue.

[11thHour]

Lib here. There's no excuse for this, and it shouldn't be swept under the rug. She/her people screwed up big time.

[Brave Stranger]

This is fast becoming a nation that has no grasp of how important the rule of law is/was.

[SHABAZZ310]

Hillary not using a government issued email isn't really a big issue to me.

[biscuitmom]

So what? All the previous Secretaries of State, including Colin Powell, did the same.

Not appropriate even if it is apparently common practice for government officials to use their personal e-mail accounts to conduct business.

[Icy Tea]

That goes beyond gross stupidity and can only be attributed to corruption on Mrs. Clinton's part.

[elan]

So, her emails aren't preserved with the department? I don't see that the address makes that much difference, but they should be on the server. How are they supposed to reference them?