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Did other secretaries of state use personal emails for government business?

The IG report confirmed what we had previously written: Among Clinton’s predecessors, only Colin Powell (Jan. 20, 2001–Jan. 26, 2005) used a personal email account for government business. Madeleine Albright (Jan. 23, 1997–Jan. 20, 2001) did not use email at all, and Condoleezza Rice (Jan. 26, 2005–Jan. 20, 2009) did not use a personal email account to conduct government business, the IG report said. Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, told the inspector general’s office that he “infrequently” used a personal email account for government business “when responding to a sender who emailed him on his personal account.”

No other secretary of state maintained a private server that was used for government business. http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/a-guide-to-clintons-emails/

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• “My predecessors did the same thing,and many other people in the government.” – 9 March 2016, Miami, Florida

Colin Powell used a personal email address when he was secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, and it is not uncommon for government officials to occasionally use private email addresses. Like Clinton, Powell used private email exclusively, but he *********IMPORTANT**********did not use a private server and government rules were not well defined during his tenure*********IMPORTANT**********. Despite this, the state department still ruled in its recent report that he did not preserve email records." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/06/hillary-clinton-email-investigation-fact-check

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The Facts

From the beginning of the email controversy, many Democratic lawmakers have defended Clinton by saying she turned over more records than any other prior secretary of state. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who defended her using this talking point then, continues to compare Clinton and Colin Powell. FactCheck.org found Schiff twisted the facts in his most recent iteration of the talking point...

Clinton’s case is not an apples-to-apples comparison to her predecessors for two major reasons: She was the only one to have operated solely on a private email server, and she has access to more electronic records than her predecessors.

Albright never used email for work. Rice did not use personal email for work, and did not use much email in general. So it’s completely misleading to compare Clinton to Rice or Albright, who didn’t even have an email account until she left the State Department.

So that comes down to a singular predecessor, Powell. He was the only other secretary of state to regularly use email — in fact, he used a personal email account from a commercial Internet provider.

Clinton has produced more emails than Powell. According to the State Department, Powell’s representative confirmed in March 2015 that Powell did not retain his emails or make printed copies before his tenure ended in 2005. Powell’s staff has said the account has been closed, and that Powell does not have access to it anymore....

But the inspector general also found the State Department’s “technology and information security policies were very fluid during Secretary Powell’s tenure.” After Powell left office in 2005, and through 2011, the State Department’s guidance for private email use was “considerably more detailed and more sophisticated.”

In 2002, there was a new requirement for email users to “determine the significance and value of information created on e-mail systems [and] determine the need to preserve those messages that qualify as records.” Rules for nongovernment information systems for the State Department were established in May 2004, toward the end of Powell’s tenure.

Clinton’s email use should be evaluated in the context of the clearer guidance under her tenure, and the various memorandums “specifically discussing the obligation” for officials to use department systems in most circumstances, the report said. “Secretary Clinton’s cybersecurity practices accordingly must be evaluated in light of these more comprehensive directives,” the report said...

The only person who regularly used emails is a singular predecessor, Powell. Powell did use his personal account on the job, and by his own admission no longer has access to the account he used then. So while Clinton did turn over more email records than he, she was the only one uniquely in position to do so upon the State Department’s request. This does not absolve Powell for not being able to locate his records a decade later, but the rules for private email retention and non-department email use in general were less clear under Powell.

********IMPORTANT********Further, Clinton was the only secretary of state to conduct her official business solely with a personal private server, which makes her case that much more unique and incomparable to those who came before her. We award this comparison Three Pinocchios.*********IMPORTANT**********

Three Pinocchios

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/08/democrats-still-misleading-claim-that-clinton-turned-over-more-emails-than-any-of-her-predecessors/

@bryanweary: No, he was prosecuted for much more. He deliberately and knowingly stole documents that were marked in various forms of "classified" at the time he stole them and he knew that he was taking classified information. He then deliberately and knowingly provided that information to his mistress and went as far as to hide the documents in the attic insulation of his home.

Absolutely nothing Clinton did comes even close to that blatant and egregious of a violation of the statutes.

And what's more, he only got nailed with a misdemeanor, because the interpretation of these laws is very strict and narrow. So all of the GOP/Teatrolls screaming about how she should be jailed for a felony is complete and utter partisan nonsense.

@bryanweary: Wrong, Patraeus was prosecuted for much more. He knowingly gave classified documents to 2 unauthorized people and then hid physical evidence from the investigation in his home. Hillary gave no one anything they weren't authorized to see and didn't hide evidence anywhere.

@bryanweary: Exactly... Kinda like when Ole Bubba was creeping round, making stains on Blue Dresses...