There are two rules to be dealt with one from 2005 in the Foreign Affairs Manual and one from 2009 in the Code of Federal Regulations
The 2005 rule was set on 11-04-2005, that would be 282 days after Powell quit
12 FAM 544.3 Electronic Transmission Via the Internet
It is the Department’s general policy that normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an authorized AIS, which has the proper level of security control to provide nonrepudiation, authentication and encryption, to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information. The Department’s authorized telework solution(s) are designed in a manner that meet these requirements and are not considered end points outside of the Department’s management control.
So tell me again how Powell did not follow
his own State Department's "policy", since it was a policy enacted after he left
These are not rules set up by each SOS that become obsolete when they leave office like you are pretending they are, this was a rule published in the Foreign Affairs Manual at the time and is still in the manual today
http://www.state.gov/m/a/dir/regs/fam/
The 2nd rule is
CFR 1236.22(b) in the Code of Federal Regulations. This rule has been in place since 2009
"Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system."
This rule is in place so the National Archives and Records Administration has a copy of all government related documents, so for example when Freedom of Information Act requests are made they can release the info.
People keep saying this was a personal email address and that may be technically true, it was an email address she created WHILE she was going through the confirmation hearings. This is not an email address she had personally used before becoming SOS.
The registry information for "clintonemail.com" reveals that the domain was first created on Jan. 13, 2009 -- one week before President Obama was sworn into office, and the same day that Clinton's confirmation hearings began before the Senate.
Why does one create a NEW personal email address for your new job instead of using an official email address provided to you by the employer unless you might want to hide something? Can you come up with one other REAL reason?
Yes she handed over 55,00 pages of emails and yes that means
PAGES. So instead of giving them electronic versions that could be searched through quickly she buried them in paperwork.
How do we know these 55,000 pages is everything? When asked directly on
3-6-2015 State Department spokesperson Marie Harf acknowledging Clinton’s aides made the decisions about what to fork over and what to hold back.
Now we have Rep. Trey Gowdy
claiming "There are gaps of months, and months and months" in the emails, and why yes he is a rethug and might be lying you would think one of the Dems that have the same access that he does would have said he was wrong. He also states "If you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya – she has sunglasses on and she has her handheld device in her hand – we have no emails from that day. In fact, we have no emails from that trip"
No emails from a trip to Libya seems a little odd to me.
What it boils down to for me is the fact Hillary shouldn't be allowed to determine what emails are released and which ones are not, and this would not have been a issue if she did not believe Clintons are above following the rules.
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