Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has broken her silence on why she circumvented the law by setting up private email servers that were not subject to United States state department control or security measures as required by the law.
Her answer? For convenience sake. Oh, sorry I forgot that the law does not apply if it is inconvenient.
Following a speech at the United Nations Tuesday afternoon, Clinton told reporters she “opted for convenience” for only using her private email address while at the State Department because she wanted to use one device for both her personal and work emails.
That’s because in 2008 mobile devices were not capable of delivering email from more than one account at a time. Wait, sorry that’s not true. My Blackberry from years ago pulled email from Yahoo and Google and even my own domain, all on the same device. Maybe the state department did not know that, embarrassing.
“I thought it would be easier to carry one device for my work,” Clinton said during her news conference stacked with reporters having pre-approved questions. She admitted it “would’ve been better” to use an official government email, at least for the state department and compliance with the law.
The former lawyer also admitted that she deleted all of her personal emails from her private account of the more than 60,000 emails in total that were sent and received. About half of them were personal emails, she said. It of course depends on what the meaning of personal is.
Another reason, different from the convenience reason, the personal email server was set up was for the purpose of communicating with her husband ex president Bill Clinton. It turns out that the former president has only sent two emails in his life and both were while he was president.
Ms. Clinton rambled on about Chelsea’s wedding, her mother’s funeral arrangements, and her yoga routine and how we don’t want to see any of that stuff. It’s just so difficult to separate the personal from the professional emails and really its not that important anyway.
The bottom line is that similar to everyone in government, particularly the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton believes that she is not subject to the same laws that would apply to you and me. She deliberately set up her own servers and domain name for the express purpose of subverting any possible oversight as prescribed by law.
She knew that she would do something or communicate something that she would not want subject to scrutiny, plain and simple. The easiest and most convenient way to avoid such imperial entanglements was to avoid the whole thing and set up her own system, secure or not, open or not.
