Ms. Clinton made four (4) numbered disclosure concerning her use of a private e-mail server to send and receive e-mail messages
- For “convenience” Ms. Clinton “opted to” use an existing personal computer server as her own “private” e-mail service and carry and use one (1) e-mail “device” (a smart phone?, possibly encrypted) to send (and receive) messages for both personal and governmental business.
Ms. Clinton further explained that in hindsight she should have used two devices, one for personal messages and one for government business. The federal government provides secure VPN tunneling with military grade encryption on dedicated communication devices to everyone who needs the service. This may be the second device she speaks about. The fact that Ms. Clinton failed to observe security protocols mandated for even the lowest level federal employee is bizarre.
- Ms. Clinton said the “vast” majority of her e-mails were sent to and received by government employees at their government addresses and were “captured” by the State Department system.
- Ms. Clinton then said that the State Department requested that former Secretaries of State provide government business related e-mails that were in their “personal e-mail accounts.” Ms. Clinton disclosed she examined her personal accounts (plural) and printed 55,000 pages of e-mail messages that “could possibly be work related” which she sent to the State Department. Then she disclosed that “she chose not to keep” personal, private e-mails.
- Ms. Clinton then requested that the State Department make available to the public all her work related e-mails.
Answering reporter's questions, Ms.Clinton said they were 60,000 e-mails total (sent and received), with about one-half of that number non-work related e-mails. Because of the number of messages, 60,000, it is doubtful that all those sent were generated only on the small keypad of a smart phone. I assume that a computer laptop was also used. She said that the government allowed her to personally decide what messages were work related and what were not, and she “directed my counsel” to provide work related e-mails. Ms. Clinton went on to say that no e-mail message on her server was “classified.”
Ms. Clinton later said she wiped her server clean of non-work related e-mails which means they are unrecoverable.
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