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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too many of you do not understand the different email systems. The State Department, like the Department of Defense and other agencies, has an internal email system for unclassified communications that often has sensitive or proprietary information in emails, but is not supposed to have secret or top secret classified information. Classified documents use an entirely different system and cannot be emailed to the unclassified email system.

The issue here, as I see it, is the Secretary had daily meetings, speeches, phone calls, and other events and tasks needs background briefings, talking points, daily news updates, and the other basic staff-supplied materials that every significant government, corporate. or other official requires. The expectation was that the unclassified emails and documents that are shared in the unclassified State Department email system could be sent to the Secretary's private server for her official use.

It appears that the people preparing her talking points and briefs included some information that the classifiers now believe came from top secret sources. Some of this is subject to interpretation because there are things published in the media and discussed fairly openly - drone strikes, for example - that the intelligence community nevertheless considers to be top secret information. This is an issue not only for the Secretary's private server, top secret information is not supposed to be on the internal State Department email system either. In fact, the issue would be much the same even if she had used a State Department account, because top secret information is not supposed to be in those emails either.

I would bet that if you dug this deep into Defense, Homeland Security, CIA, or other email systems, you would find similar examples in which information is shared in the unclassified email systems that the users think is not secret but that the classification community would consider to be secret or top secret. [/quote]

Since you understand how the system works...can you explain why a private server would be needed or necessary? What are the practical advantages?

[b]I assume it's bad because if this hadn't been discovered then the emails would not have been able to be entered in the public record?[/b] I am assuming that no classified information was knowingly sent or received except in the scenario you described.

Like, I haven't really been objectively determine if what was done was really bad or just politically bad.[/quote]

Not the pp.  The bolded is not true.  [/quote]

Care to elaborate? [/quote]

Emails are government records.  They do not belong to the sender, or the receiver for that matter. 
Also, her emails were subpoenaed by the Benghazi Select committee.  It took them months, if not years to find them because - Surprise - she didn’t use a government email. [/quote]

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