Is it okay for Gov't officials to use private Email to conduct
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Re: It's unbelievably stupid
You just don't do it.
Of course it would depend on the nature of the correspondance to determine how harmful it might have been.
Because there are specific systems and networks to be used for official government business that meet more stringent security requirements than any .com email system does.
You just don't do it.
Of course it would depend on the nature of the correspondance to determine how harmful it might have been.
Not at our level, but some people can do pretty much as they please. When Powell was Secretary of State he used his personal e-mail because our e-mail system here was handcuffed and shackled to a ridiculous degree -- all e-mails with attachments were held for screening, e-mails with attachments over 1Mb were blocked, e-mails containing certain "prohibited" words were blocked, and so on ... Some things improved thanks to him raising hell, but he probably told Hillary to avoid using our official e-mail if she wanted to get anything done.
The law didn't change until last fall, and in fact the law wouldn't have required her to have a State e-mail account, only to retain e-mails as an official record. I agree with WhitetailEer that it was a pretty dumb move on her part given how insecure most commercial e-mail services are, and I was surprised that she never even bothered to set up a State e-mail account, but once again there's no law that says any official has to have a .gov address, only that they keep their official correspondence. That's the part she messed up on.
The retention is the bothersome part.
It doesn't cost much to obtain an Exchange Server account somewhere that provides you very very very solid backups.
Unless that is you like hitting that pesky delete key on email, which if she did, then that is very wrong.
It doesn't cost much to obtain an Exchange Server account somewhere that provides you very very very solid backups.
Unless that is you like hitting that pesky delete key on email, which if she did, then that is very wrong.
Re: The retention is the whole issue
Although, the law requiring electronic correspondence to be archived didn't go into effect until last December. Amazingly -- or maybe not so amazingly, this is the Federal government we're talking about, the same Federal government that just stopped running Windows XP a little over a year ago and still uses Internet Explorer as its official default browser -- until the update passed by the last Congress and signed by Obama the day after Thanksgiving, only paper correspondence was required to be archived. It would be interesting to know how many agencies held on to e-mails before that.
Does it look hinky? No doubt. But I think there's less to this than meets the eye, and it's mostly about dislike for Hillary ... and of course, Benghazi!
http://thedailybanter.com/2015/03/story-hillary-cl
Although, the law requiring electronic correspondence to be archived didn't go into effect until last December. Amazingly -- or maybe not so amazingly, this is the Federal government we're talking about, the same Federal government that just stopped running Windows XP a little over a year ago and still uses Internet Explorer as its official default browser -- until the update passed by the last Congress and signed by Obama the day after Thanksgiving, only paper correspondence was required to be archived. It would be interesting to know how many agencies held on to e-mails before that.
Does it look hinky? No doubt. But I think there's less to this than meets the eye, and it's mostly about dislike for Hillary ... and of course, Benghazi!
http://thedailybanter.com/2015/03/story-hillary-cl
