What did Clinton--Powell & Rice have in common? EVERYTHING regarding emails and classified info.

[Oldstyle]

What's most telling about the Clinton's isn't that they're corrupt...it's that they seem to think the average American is too stupid to care that they're corrupt.

When Hillary explains that the 33,000 deleted emails were "wedding plans" and "recipes"...it's basically her telling the world that she thinks you're an idiot and will buy whatever story she concocts!

In your case they got it right.

I haven't bought ANY of the Clinton bullshit from day one! I thought Bill was a lying piece of crap way back when he was denying having an affair with Gennifer Flowers! I thought Hillary was a lying piece of crap when she claimed that she learned how to futures trade from an article she read in the New York Times! The meaning of "is"? Seriously? Who can look at a performance like THAT and not be convinced that the man giving that testimony doesn't have an honest bone in his body?

 

[bripat9643]

"The truth about the last two Republican secretaries of state has finally come out: Colin Powell and aides to Condoleezza Rice trafficked in classified information on their personal email accounts. This is an enormous scandal!

Oh, wait. No, it’s not.

This news involving Powell and Rice is meaningless except that it sets up a rational conversation (finally) about the Hillary Clinton bogus “email-gate” imbroglio. Perhaps the partisans on each side will now be more willing to listen to the facts. From the beginning, the “scandal” about Clinton using a personal email account when she was secretary of state—including the finding that a few documents on it were retroactively deemed classified—has been a big nothing-burger perpetuated for partisan purposes, with reports spooned out by Republicans attempting to deceive or acting out of ignorance. Conservative commentators have raged, presidential candidates have fallen over themselves in apoplectic babbling, and some politicians have proclaimed that Clinton should be in jail for mishandling classified information. The nonsense has been never-ending, and attempts to cut through the fog of duplicity have been fruitless.

But Powell and Rice’s aides did nothing wrong. (I’m going to focus on them so that partisans who say Clinton broke the law have to attack respected Republicans first.) Start with this: Powell and Rice, like all modern secretaries of state, each had at least two email accounts—one personal and the other for communications designated as highly classified at the time of their creation . For classified information, both of them—and their aides with appropriate clearance—had a sensitive compartmented information facility, or what is known in intelligence circles as a SCIF. Most senior officials who deal with classified information have a SCIF in their offices and their homes.

Then there is the issue of servers. Where did Powell and Rice’s staff have their servers? Who knows, and who cares? Maybe they were private with special security and no public access. Or maybe they were just an AOL server. Whichever it was, they would be just as open to hacking as the State Department servers. In fact, the State Department general email system has been hacked multiple times, with terabytes of information improperly downloaded in 2006 alone. There has been no indication that the email accounts of either Powell or Rice’s staff were compromised.

Powell may have made one mistake in all this. He has said he never backed up his emails or printed them out; that was necessary to comply with some of the preservation rules detailed in the Federal Register. Of course, that doesn’t mean they can’t be recovered, since the FOIA staff is now reviewing his emails.

The bottom line: Democrats may try to turn the revelations about the email accounts used by Powell and Rice’s staff into a scandal. They may release press statements condemning the former secretaries of state; they may call for scores of unnecessary congressional hearings; they may go to the press and confidently proclaim that crimes were committed by these honorable Republicans. But it would all be lies. Powell and Rice did nothing wrong. This could be considered a scandal only by ignorant or lying partisans.

So there is no Powell or Rice email scandal. And no doubt, that will infuriate the Republicans who are trying so hard to trick people into believing Clinton committed a crime by doing the exact same thing as her predecessors.
The shocking truth: Colin Powell’s emails don’t matter

There's much more detailed information in the article regarding classified information. But it's clear MANY on this board are suffering from OCDD (obsessive Clinton derangement disorder) so it may be very difficult for some to get through it all. Others may have to read it 5 or 6 times to get it to sink in.

We can only hope that once Democrats take over the house they keep their integrity level high--and don't drag us through more email investigations into Colin Powell & Condi Rice emails.

The only problem with your claim is that both Powell and Rice have denied it.

DOH!

 

[Oldstyle]

She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed.....and the emails supplied to congress are so redacted they are virtually unreadable............so again...you guys can dodge and weave all you want....she broke the law, she is using the clinton foundation to launder money and she used secret email servers to hide her activity....

She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed...

Yes dope, thousands of mails were exchanged with people on the State servers and no one knew about her"secret, private server" even though they knew her email address. This has got to be the dumbest argument I have ever seen.

It's how she got caught! Congressional investigators didn't know a thing about Hillary's two private servers because she had hid their existence from Congress when they requested all communications regarding Benghazi. A pattern soon emerged as investigators looked at State Department communications...there were no official Hillary Clinton emails at all because she was conducting ALL of her State Department business through her two hidden servers and she hadn't turned any of those over to Congress! Once Congressional investigators realized what was going on, they requested Clinton turn over the emails on those two servers which was when Hillary had the 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers. What's "dumb" is Clinton thinking that she could get away with what she tried to get away with. Under the Freedom of Information Act, government officials are required to be transparent in how they conduct themselves. It's legislation that was passed to prevent corruption. You know...like pay for play schemes?

You are so full of shit dude. State knew from day one. She was SOS. She and her staff corresponded with State staff on State servers probably hundreds of times daily. It was immediately apparent by the address.
All of the correspondence with the State servers also existed within the State servers.

If that's the case, Starsky....then kindly explain why the FBI can't retrieve the 33,000 emails that Clinton had scrubbed?

Nothing was "scrubbed". Comey stated that quite clearly in his testimony. Personal emails were not required to be given to State.

Now you're claiming Hillary DIDN'T have 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers so professionally that the FBI couldn't retrieve them? Wow, you're either incredibly ignorant or willfully dishonest!

 

[Hutch Starskey]

What's most telling about the Clinton's isn't that they're corrupt...it's that they seem to think the average American is too stupid to care that they're corrupt.

When Hillary explains that the 33,000 deleted emails were "wedding plans" and "recipes"...it's basically her telling the world that she thinks you're an idiot and will buy whatever story she concocts!

In your case they got it right.

I haven't bought ANY of the Clinton bullshit from day one! I thought Bill was a lying piece of crap way back when he was denying having an affair with Gennifer Flowers! I thought Hillary was a lying piece of crap when she claimed that she learned how to futures trade from an article she read in the New York Times! The meaning of "is"? Seriously? Who can look at a performance like THAT and not be convinced that the man giving that testimony doesn't have an honest bone in his body?

Thank you for admitting your bias. There is no way you will ever be objective.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Yes dope, thousands of mails were exchanged with people on the State servers and no one knew about her"secret, private server" even though they knew her email address. This has got to be the dumbest argument I have ever seen.

It's how she got caught! Congressional investigators didn't know a thing about Hillary's two private servers because she had hid their existence from Congress when they requested all communications regarding Benghazi. A pattern soon emerged as investigators looked at State Department communications...there were no official Hillary Clinton emails at all because she was conducting ALL of her State Department business through her two hidden servers and she hadn't turned any of those over to Congress! Once Congressional investigators realized what was going on, they requested Clinton turn over the emails on those two servers which was when Hillary had the 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers. What's "dumb" is Clinton thinking that she could get away with what she tried to get away with. Under the Freedom of Information Act, government officials are required to be transparent in how they conduct themselves. It's legislation that was passed to prevent corruption. You know...like pay for play schemes?

You are so full of shit dude. State knew from day one. She was SOS. She and her staff corresponded with State staff on State servers probably hundreds of times daily. It was immediately apparent by the address.
All of the correspondence with the State servers also existed within the State servers.

If that's the case, Starsky....then kindly explain why the FBI can't retrieve the 33,000 emails that Clinton had scrubbed?

Nothing was "scrubbed". Comey stated that quite clearly in his testimony. Personal emails were not required to be given to State.

Now you're claiming Hillary DIDN'T have 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers so professionally that the FBI couldn't retrieve them? Wow, you're either incredibly ignorant or willfully dishonest!

I'm saying that was addressed during Comey's testimony.

 

[jasonnfree]

"The truth about the last two Republican secretaries of state has finally come out: Colin Powell and aides to Condoleezza Rice trafficked in classified information on their personal email accounts. This is an enormous scandal!

Oh, wait. No, it’s not.

This news involving Powell and Rice is meaningless except that it sets up a rational conversation (finally) about the Hillary Clinton bogus “email-gate” imbroglio. Perhaps the partisans on each side will now be more willing to listen to the facts. From the beginning, the “scandal” about Clinton using a personal email account when she was secretary of state—including the finding that a few documents on it were retroactively deemed classified—has been a big nothing-burger perpetuated for partisan purposes, with reports spooned out by Republicans attempting to deceive or acting out of ignorance. Conservative commentators have raged, presidential candidates have fallen over themselves in apoplectic babbling, and some politicians have proclaimed that Clinton should be in jail for mishandling classified information. The nonsense has been never-ending, and attempts to cut through the fog of duplicity have been fruitless.

But Powell and Rice’s aides did nothing wrong. (I’m going to focus on them so that partisans who say Clinton broke the law have to attack respected Republicans first.) Start with this: Powell and Rice, like all modern secretaries of state, each had at least two email accounts—one personal and the other for communications designated as highly classified at the time of their creation . For classified information, both of them—and their aides with appropriate clearance—had a sensitive compartmented information facility, or what is known in intelligence circles as a SCIF. Most senior officials who deal with classified information have a SCIF in their offices and their homes.

Then there is the issue of servers. Where did Powell and Rice’s staff have their servers? Who knows, and who cares? Maybe they were private with special security and no public access. Or maybe they were just an AOL server. Whichever it was, they would be just as open to hacking as the State Department servers. In fact, the State Department general email system has been hacked multiple times, with terabytes of information improperly downloaded in 2006 alone. There has been no indication that the email accounts of either Powell or Rice’s staff were compromised.

Powell may have made one mistake in all this. He has said he never backed up his emails or printed them out; that was necessary to comply with some of the preservation rules detailed in the Federal Register. Of course, that doesn’t mean they can’t be recovered, since the FOIA staff is now reviewing his emails.

The bottom line: Democrats may try to turn the revelations about the email accounts used by Powell and Rice’s staff into a scandal. They may release press statements condemning the former secretaries of state; they may call for scores of unnecessary congressional hearings; they may go to the press and confidently proclaim that crimes were committed by these honorable Republicans. But it would all be lies. Powell and Rice did nothing wrong. This could be considered a scandal only by ignorant or lying partisans.

So there is no Powell or Rice email scandal. And no doubt, that will infuriate the Republicans who are trying so hard to trick people into believing Clinton committed a crime by doing the exact same thing as her predecessors.
The shocking truth: Colin Powell’s emails don’t matter

There's much more detailed information in the article regarding classified information. But it's clear MANY on this board are suffering from OCDD (obsessive Clinton derangement disorder) so it may be very difficult for some to get through it all. Others may have to read it 5 or 6 times to get it to sink in.

We can only hope that once Democrats take over the house they keep their integrity level high--and don't drag us through more email investigations into Colin Powell & Condi Rice emails.

Great news!!! This gets clinton off the hook. Now she can still be our prez as long as she has a team of people assisting in teaching her how to do her job. (In between naps).

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

What did Clinton--Powell & Rice have in common? EVERYTHING regarding emails and classified info.

Not according to Powell.

 

[Oldstyle]

What's most telling about the Clinton's isn't that they're corrupt...it's that they seem to think the average American is too stupid to care that they're corrupt.

When Hillary explains that the 33,000 deleted emails were "wedding plans" and "recipes"...it's basically her telling the world that she thinks you're an idiot and will buy whatever story she concocts!

In your case they got it right.

I haven't bought ANY of the Clinton bullshit from day one! I thought Bill was a lying piece of crap way back when he was denying having an affair with Gennifer Flowers! I thought Hillary was a lying piece of crap when she claimed that she learned how to futures trade from an article she read in the New York Times! The meaning of "is"? Seriously? Who can look at a performance like THAT and not be convinced that the man giving that testimony doesn't have an honest bone in his body?

Thank you for admitting your bias. There is no way you will ever be objective.

I'm "biased" because I believe the Clinton's have a long history of lying? Well, yeah...I guess I am! My question to you, Hutch is what rational person WOULDN'T BE?

 

[Oldstyle]

It's how she got caught! Congressional investigators didn't know a thing about Hillary's two private servers because she had hid their existence from Congress when they requested all communications regarding Benghazi. A pattern soon emerged as investigators looked at State Department communications...there were no official Hillary Clinton emails at all because she was conducting ALL of her State Department business through her two hidden servers and she hadn't turned any of those over to Congress! Once Congressional investigators realized what was going on, they requested Clinton turn over the emails on those two servers which was when Hillary had the 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers. What's "dumb" is Clinton thinking that she could get away with what she tried to get away with. Under the Freedom of Information Act, government officials are required to be transparent in how they conduct themselves. It's legislation that was passed to prevent corruption. You know...like pay for play schemes?

You are so full of shit dude. State knew from day one. She was SOS. She and her staff corresponded with State staff on State servers probably hundreds of times daily. It was immediately apparent by the address.
All of the correspondence with the State servers also existed within the State servers.

If that's the case, Starsky....then kindly explain why the FBI can't retrieve the 33,000 emails that Clinton had scrubbed?

Nothing was "scrubbed". Comey stated that quite clearly in his testimony. Personal emails were not required to be given to State.

Now you're claiming Hillary DIDN'T have 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers so professionally that the FBI couldn't retrieve them? Wow, you're either incredibly ignorant or willfully dishonest!

I'm saying that was addressed during Comey's testimony.

Comey testified that Clinton DIDN'T scrub 33,000 emails from her servers? Really? I must have missed that, Hutch! Care to point out where in his testimony he said that?

 

[Hutch Starskey]

You are so full of shit dude. State knew from day one. She was SOS. She and her staff corresponded with State staff on State servers probably hundreds of times daily. It was immediately apparent by the address.
All of the correspondence with the State servers also existed within the State servers.

If that's the case, Starsky....then kindly explain why the FBI can't retrieve the 33,000 emails that Clinton had scrubbed?

Nothing was "scrubbed". Comey stated that quite clearly in his testimony. Personal emails were not required to be given to State.

Now you're claiming Hillary DIDN'T have 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers so professionally that the FBI couldn't retrieve them? Wow, you're either incredibly ignorant or willfully dishonest!

I'm saying that was addressed during Comey's testimony.

Comey testified that Clinton DIDN'T scrub 33,000 emails from her servers? Really? I must have missed that, Hutch! Care to point out where in his testimony he said that?

What FBI Director Really Said About Clinton Email Probe

When the State Department in late 2014 asked former secretaries of state to hand over any work-related emails the department may be missing, Clinton's server had about 60,000 emails on it. Clinton's lawyers deemed about 30,000 of those emails work related.

"[Clinton] then was asked by her lawyers at the end, 'Do you want us to keep the personal emails?' And she said, 'I have no use for them anymore.' It's then that they issued the direction that the technical people delete them ... [and] wipe them away," Comey testified.

He said that the FBI investigation found that Clinton didn't know her legal team had deleted those emails and that she didn't know her lawyers had cleaned the devices in such a way to preclude forensic recovery. The goal was to delete just personal emails, but more than personal emails ended up being deleted, he said.

 

[Oldstyle]

What did Clinton--Powell & Rice have in common? EVERYTHING regarding emails and classified info.

Not according to Powell.

The liberal talking point that Clinton did nothing that Powell and Rice didn't do is laughable! Condi Rice seldom used emails at all. Colin Powell's use of them was before regulations were put in place to control the way they were used. Hillary Clinton knew that she was supposed to work through an email account provided by the State Department but instead spent over a hundred thousand dollars to install two private servers in her house so that she could conduct official business "off the grid" and avoid Freedom of Information Act requests as well as Congressional scrutiny. Think about that for a moment...who spends that much money for no apparent reason? Why would someone as notoriously frugal as Hillary shell out that kind of cash for something she could have gotten for nothing through the State Department? How much do any of you out there in internet world spend to set up YOUR email system? Would you spend a hundred grand out of your pocket? But you think someone who donated used underwear to charity and wrote it off on her taxes...you think THAT woman shelled out a hundred thousand dollars for no reason? There is naive, folks...and then there is woefully ignorant!

 

[Oldstyle]

If that's the case, Starsky....then kindly explain why the FBI can't retrieve the 33,000 emails that Clinton had scrubbed?

Nothing was "scrubbed". Comey stated that quite clearly in his testimony. Personal emails were not required to be given to State.

Now you're claiming Hillary DIDN'T have 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers so professionally that the FBI couldn't retrieve them? Wow, you're either incredibly ignorant or willfully dishonest!

I'm saying that was addressed during Comey's testimony.

Comey testified that Clinton DIDN'T scrub 33,000 emails from her servers? Really? I must have missed that, Hutch! Care to point out where in his testimony he said that?

What FBI Director Really Said About Clinton Email Probe

When the State Department in late 2014 asked former secretaries of state to hand over any work-related emails the department may be missing, Clinton's server had about 60,000 emails on it. Clinton's lawyers deemed about 30,000 of those emails work related.

"[Clinton] then was asked by her lawyers at the end, 'Do you want us to keep the personal emails?' And she said, 'I have no use for them anymore.' It's then that they issued the direction that the technical people delete them ... [and] wipe them away," Comey testified.

He said that the FBI investigation found that Clinton didn't know her legal team had deleted those emails and that she didn't know her lawyers had cleaned the devices in such a way to preclude forensic recovery. The goal was to delete just personal emails, but more than personal emails ended up being deleted, he said.

Ah, so now you're claiming that Hillary didn't know that the emails were going to be scrubbed...that was all her lawyers idea? You buy that, Hutch?

 

[Oldstyle]

Those would be the lawyers that Clinton claimed had read all of the deleted emails to determine that they were "personal" but when questioned on that claim later admitted that they hadn't read the emails at all? Those lawyers?

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Nothing was "scrubbed". Comey stated that quite clearly in his testimony. Personal emails were not required to be given to State.

Now you're claiming Hillary DIDN'T have 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers so professionally that the FBI couldn't retrieve them? Wow, you're either incredibly ignorant or willfully dishonest!

I'm saying that was addressed during Comey's testimony.

Comey testified that Clinton DIDN'T scrub 33,000 emails from her servers? Really? I must have missed that, Hutch! Care to point out where in his testimony he said that?

What FBI Director Really Said About Clinton Email Probe

When the State Department in late 2014 asked former secretaries of state to hand over any work-related emails the department may be missing, Clinton's server had about 60,000 emails on it. Clinton's lawyers deemed about 30,000 of those emails work related.

"[Clinton] then was asked by her lawyers at the end, 'Do you want us to keep the personal emails?' And she said, 'I have no use for them anymore.' It's then that they issued the direction that the technical people delete them ... [and] wipe them away," Comey testified.

He said that the FBI investigation found that Clinton didn't know her legal team had deleted those emails and that she didn't know her lawyers had cleaned the devices in such a way to preclude forensic recovery. The goal was to delete just personal emails, but more than personal emails ended up being deleted, he said.

Ah, so now you're claiming that Hillary didn't know that the emails were going to be scrubbed...that was all her lawyers idea? You buy that, Hutch?

No, Comey testified that the FBI investigation determined that was the case. Did you read the link?

 

[oreo]

What did Clinton--Powell & Rice have in common? EVERYTHING regarding emails and classified info.

Not according to Powell.

Colin Powell did go out to dinner with Madeleine Albright and other former secretaries of State to give Hillary Clinton tips on what to do. We know that-- COLIN POWELL admits he sent an email to Hillary Clinton stating this.

Powell's office later released a statement to NBC News, saying he "has no recollection of the dinner conversation." However, "He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department." Colin Powell Says Hillary Clinton's 'People Have Been Trying to Pin' Email Scandal on Him

Read the ENTIRE article -don't eliminate ANYTHING to suit your opinion--it goes into detail.
The shocking truth: Colin Powell’s emails don’t matter

It's very clear that Hillary Clinton was just following her Predecessor's. Furthermore, she had a Senior IT staffer working at the State Department set up and maintain her server, which in my opinion is much better and more secure than just getting on the internet and opening up an AOL email account. It also says that if anyone should known that it was the wrong thing to do, and or that it broke protocol, it would have been a Senior IT staffer working at the state department. It's probably because he had done others, and it was never an issue until NOW.
Rice Aides, Powell Also Got Classified Info on Personal Email Accounts

You better hope that Democrats do not take over the house in 2016--because Pay-Backs can be hell & you may end up to your Email Eyeballs with scandals regarding Colin Powell & Condi Rice activities while they were Secretaries of State.

For decades you have been brainwashed with these manufactured stories, told half truths, & enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling with these endless attacks on Hillary Clinton. Done by Reich wing talk show hosts, that are NOT required to tell you the whole truth, because they are simply for political "entertainment" ratings and those obscene profit breaks. Most of you live in a very dark place of political ignorance and anger because of them. They are the reason the reason the Republican party has been shattered into pieces.

 

[oreo]

What did Clinton--Powell & Rice have in common? EVERYTHING regarding emails and classified info.

Not according to Powell.

The liberal talking point that Clinton did nothing that Powell and Rice didn't do is laughable! Condi Rice seldom used emails at all. Colin Powell's use of them was before regulations were put in place to control the way they were used. Hillary Clinton knew that she was supposed to work through an email account provided by the State Department but instead spent over a hundred thousand dollars to install two private servers in her house so that she could conduct official business "off the grid" and avoid Freedom of Information Act requests as well as Congressional scrutiny. Think about that for a moment...who spends that much money for no apparent reason? Why would someone as notoriously frugal as Hillary shell out that kind of cash for something she could have gotten for nothing through the State Department? How much do any of you out there in internet world spend to set up YOUR email system? Would you spend a hundred grand out of your pocket? But you think someone who donated used underwear to charity and wrote it off on her taxes...you think THAT woman shelled out a hundred thousand dollars for no reason? There is naive, folks...and then there is woefully ignorant!

You have not provided a link to that CLAIM, you've simply been spoon fed that information from Reich wing talk show hosts. I have given you plenty of links, you haven't provided one single link that State Department protocol somehow changed between the period of 2009 and 2012.

Clearly if Comey had investigated Colin Powell's and Condi Rice's activities during their tenure as Secretaries of State, there would have been a lot more hands slapped than just Hillary Clinton's.

 

[Oldstyle]

What did Clinton--Powell & Rice have in common? EVERYTHING regarding emails and classified info.

Not according to Powell.

The liberal talking point that Clinton did nothing that Powell and Rice didn't do is laughable! Condi Rice seldom used emails at all. Colin Powell's use of them was before regulations were put in place to control the way they were used. Hillary Clinton knew that she was supposed to work through an email account provided by the State Department but instead spent over a hundred thousand dollars to install two private servers in her house so that she could conduct official business "off the grid" and avoid Freedom of Information Act requests as well as Congressional scrutiny. Think about that for a moment...who spends that much money for no apparent reason? Why would someone as notoriously frugal as Hillary shell out that kind of cash for something she could have gotten for nothing through the State Department? How much do any of you out there in internet world spend to set up YOUR email system? Would you spend a hundred grand out of your pocket? But you think someone who donated used underwear to charity and wrote it off on her taxes...you think THAT woman shelled out a hundred thousand dollars for no reason? There is naive, folks...and then there is woefully ignorant!

You have not provided a link to that CLAIM, you've simply been spoon fed that information from Reich wing talk show hosts. I have given you plenty of links, you haven't provided one single link that State Department protocol somehow changed between the period of 2009 and 2012.

Clearly if Comey had investigated Colin Powell's and Condi Rice's activities during their tenure as Secretaries of State, there would have been a lot more hands slapped than just Hillary Clinton's.

The following is from the State Department's manual. Take note of the date of it's passage...11-14-2011. I've highlighted one paragraph in red to underscore that there were rules in place regarding preservation of work related emails...rules that Hillary Clinton disregarded completely.

5 FAM 754 Email Management

(CT:IM-122; 11-14-2011)

a. Users are to actively manage their email accounts and avoid retaining unnecessary email in their mailbox.

b. Email originators and recipients are required to determine if an email is appropriate for preservation and, to the extent necessary, properly archive the email outside their email mailboxes. Placing an email in personal folders is NOT an adequate substitute for preserving the item as a record. SMART users who identify a working email that needs archiving should click the Convert to Archive button in Microsoft Outlook. This opens an archive message form that allows users to send the message to the Archive, where it is retained and available for SMART searches.

c. Working emails are NOT stored in the Archive, but they still require classification and sensitivity markings. Examples of working emails include:

· Messages documenting routine activities containing non substantive information, such as routine notifications of meetings, scheduling of work-related trips and visits, and other scheduling related activities.

· Messages containing drafts that do not provide understanding of the formulation and execution of basic policies, decisions, actions, or responsibilities.

· Messages containing quasi-official notices including memoranda and other records that do not serve as the basis of official actions, such as notices of holidays or charity and welfare fund appeals, bond campaigns, and similar records.

· Material retained for reference while working on a project that is no longer needed when the project is complete, provided the material does not warrant long-term preservation.

· Personal exchanges unrelated to official business.

d. As with other documentary materials, users must take steps to preserve emails where required by legal mandates (e.g., emails relevant to actual or anticipated litigation or in response to pending requests from Congress or under the Freedom of Information Act.) Email systems administrators must also take steps to preserve emails when authorized.

e. Email messages are records when they meet the definition of a record as stated in the Federal Records Act (44 U.S.C. 3301). Email messages are records when:

(1) An agency makes messages related to Federal law or in connection with public business; and

(2) There is information regarding Governments which provides informational value of the data.

f. Email message creators and recipients must decide whether a particular message is appropriate for preservation in the Archive. Consistent with 5 FAM 443, principal categories of materials, including email, that must be preserved are: records that document the formulation and execution of basic policies and decisions and the taking of necessary actions; records that document important meetings; records that facilitate agency officials’ and their successors’ action; records that make scrutiny by the Congress or other duly authorized agencies of the Government possible; and records that protect the financial, legal, and other rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the Government’s actions. See 5 FAM 443 and the Records Management website for Record email identification.

 

[Oldstyle]

So I provided Oreo the "link" to the State Department manual he demanded to see...and now he's long gone and hard to find...typical!