I am not prone to hyperbole or voicing off-the-cuff opinions. It's taken me a while to digest this news, partly because I just could not believe it, and was waiting for the 'real story' to come out. I am now shocked and disappointed that this story is true, and so far virtually undefended.
I would take issue with the mayor of a city setting up a personal email account and using that exclusively for government business. She was the Secretary of the State, for God's sake, fourth in line to the Presidency!! She conducted business with other countries! She is, to the best of my knowledge, a very responsible person. How in the world could she justify using a personal email account to carry out the business of government? I cannot fathom any reason that will be acceptable to us, the people. Yet, to compound the issue, we have heard nothing from her in way of an explanation. Apparently it's just not that important to her.
Fair disclosure, although I used to be a strong Hillary for President supporter, I am no longer. Too many of her actions or words have led me to believe she is too much like all the other politicians that we elect, and by that I mean, part of the corporate machine that is only interested in furthering their short-term gain, and to hell with the people.
I'm truly at a loss as to:
- how she can justify representing the People of the United States, and President Obama, using a personal email account;
- how those around her accepted this, allowed it to happen, and continue, from her staff to other Cabinet members, to the White House;
- how the Administration was so asleep at the wheel, and let this happen;
- why it is only coming to light now, two years after she left office, six years after this unacceptable practice began
Just from a cover-your-butt factor, can you imagine the fallout if her personal account had been hacked? She would have no place to run and hide. If her government account was hacked, she could have successfully pleaded it wasn't her fault, as she had nothing to do with the computer security. It doesn't matter at all how secure she thought her personal servers were, they were still not government secured.
As far as we know today, she is the only one with access to those ~55,000 pages of emails. Again, it's been TWO YEARS since she left office, so who knows what has been deleted or changed in those emails during that time?
Politicians continue to find new ways to rock me. I'm reminded of the quote I recently discovered by President Lincoln: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
