HRC - What Happened

From her recollections of her campaign published in 2017.

It's a 7 day library loan and I just don't have the ability to read the thing nor the desire, but I just wanted to see what she had to day about that whole 'damn Email thing'.


"It was a dumb mistake.
 But an even dumber "scandal"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech

"It was like quicksand : the more you struggle the deeper you sink. At times I thought I was going crazy. Other times I was sure it was the world that had gone nuts. ..... Mostly, I was furious at myself.

 "Given my inability to explain this mess, I decided to let other voices tell the story this time..

 Our best information is that she set it up as a matter of convenience.
                    -- FBI director Jim Comey, in congressional testimony July 7, 2016

"Yes it was supposed to be convenient. Some doubted that explanation. But that's what the FBI concluded after months of investigation. And it's the truth.

 .........

 "I emailed regularly with Chelsea and with Bill's team --- he does not personally use email, and we are still phone people --and with relatives and friends. But very little of my work was via email
during the next four hectic years. I held lots of meetings, talked on the phone (on both regular and secure lines), read stacks of briefing papers, and traveled nearly a million miles to 112 countries to see people face-to-face.

 When we went back later on and collected all my work related emails, we found a lot like this:

   to John Podesta....   .... Please wear socks to keep your feet warm.

   to Huma Abedin    .....   Can you hang up the fax line ...

   to Huma Abedin    .. I'm fighting with the WH operator who doesn't believe I am who I say and wants my direct office line even though....

 (I've shortened Hilary's humorous examples .. chuckle)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech

 Laws and regulations did not prohibit employees from using their personal email accounts for
the conduct of official Department business.
      --- Report by the State Department Inspector General, May 2016

 .....
 
   I directed my attorneys to collect and provide to the department any messages I had that could be conceivably be considered related to official business. That came to more than 30,000 emails. They were intentionally expansive in what they determined to be work related. The State Department and the National Archives and Records Administration later determined that 1,258 of them were, in fact, purely personal and did not need to be provided to the department.
   More than 30,000 emails sounds like a lot. But that's over four years, and a lot of those consisted
of "Thx" "Pls Print" -- or no reply at all ......
   Another 31,000 of the emails I had were personal and not related in any way to my job as Secretary of State. I got a lot of grief for saying they were about yoga sessions and wedding planning. But these messages also included communications with lawyers and doctors, information about my mother's estate  ........ in short , clearly personal content. Naturally I don't want strangers reading them.

 ......and for good reason no one wants his or her personal emails made public.

  http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/20/hillary_clinton_email_scandal_explained.html