The Worst Thing About The Hillary Email Story

Posted by | March 14, 2015 22:12 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Stuart Shapiro

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I think that Hillary made an error in judgment in emailing from her personal account.  But part of her story is quite plausible.  She said that she thought emails to other State Department officials would automatically be saved.  It turns out she was wrong:

the State Department disclosed on Friday that until last month it had no way of routinely preserving senior officials’ emails. Instead, the department relied on individual employees to decide if certain emails should be considered public records, and if so, to move them onto a special record-keeping sever, or print them out and manually file them for preservation.

Even worse:

An Obama administration directive in 2012 mandates that agencies must devise a system for retaining and preserving email records electronically by the end of 2016, but many agencies’ current practice is to save emails by printing them out and storing them in files.

In 2015?  Really?  When I worked at the Office of Management and Budget, every email I wrote was blind copied to a server where it was stored.  Oh, I worked there 15 years ago.  It’s appalling that the rest of the bureaucracy is so far behind.[su_fb]

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Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.

5 responses to The Worst Thing About The Hillary Email Story

  1. Warman1138 March 15th, 2015 at 07:59

    Keeping current with tech. is difficult at best.

  2. William March 15th, 2015 at 08:34

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  3. jstsmlbrlcnsrvtvguy March 15th, 2015 at 11:45

    you’d think that the state department could just request copies from the nsa… maybe they don’t get along as well as they could.

  4. suburbandad April 8th, 2015 at 13:02

    Start the presses on those campaign posters:

    “PART of my email story was quite plausible. Hillary 2016!”

    • OldLefty April 8th, 2015 at 13:21

      It is no different than anyone else’s email stories, meaning Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.

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