Is it legal for SoS to keep government emails on a privately owned server?
I'm not certain if anyone answered you yet, I'm still reading the thread...
But the answer is, NO, IT WAS NOT ILLEGAL for a SOS to keep gvt emails on a privately owned server, the previous Secretary of State Colin Powell, communicated and used his own private email/server while he was Secretary of State.
Since her tenure, more rules and regs for doing such have been instituted, but at the time of Hillary and Colin Powell, there was not a ban and they both did not break the law...
EVERYONE in the government, that dealt with the SOS, KNEW she was using a private email server...her email address on everything was her private server address...
As far as her sending Top Secret stuff with her server when Secretary of State, the 2 emails in question were NOT top secret at the time....she broke no rules and regs on such.....
You all have been fed a bunch of sensationalized lies and swallowed them, hook, line and sinker! Truly!!
No one belongs in jail, because no one broke the law....how much simpler can one get?
The IG investigation, that questioned the 2 classified emails, was questioning this State department employees, Kerry's State dept employees, on releasing these two emails, to the public, on a Freedom of Information Act Request....and the Inspector General felt that Kerry's State department should not have released them to the FOIA request recipient....because they had since been classified.... it has nothing at all to do with how Hillary handled these 2 emails when they were transmitted, because this info was not classified at the time, it was UNClassified...