{"id":144070,"date":"2015-03-03T21:37:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=144070"},"modified":"2015-03-03T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:37:58","slug":"hillary-clintons-use-personal-email-account-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/hillary-clintons-use-personal-email-account-state-department\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Hillary Clinton\u2019s Use of Personal Email Account at State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That sound you hear?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Republicans dancing a merry jig, and Benghazi investigators sharpening their subpoenas, because 2016 just got a lot more interesting with the revelation that as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton conducted all official business using a personal email account on her own web domain.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what happened, and why it matters. A lot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html?_r=1\">conduct government business<\/a> as secretary of state, violating federal regulations that officials\u2019 correspondence be retained as part of the agency\u2019s record and thus subject to Freedom of Information Act and Congressional requests. Clinton did not have a government email address during her entire four-year tenure, and her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.<\/p>\n<p>It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Clinton\u2019s personal advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the Department. The contents of the rest are known only to Clinton insiders. The process Clinton\u2019s advisers used to determine which emails related to her work at the State Department were turned over has not been explained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2015\/03\/03\/more-on-hillary-clintons-use-of-personal-email-account-at-state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That sound you hear? That\u2019s Republicans dancing a merry jig, and Benghazi investigators sharpening their subpoenas, because 2016 just got a lot more interesting with the revelation that as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton conducted all official business using a personal email account on her own web domain. Here\u2019s what happened, and why it matters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}