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In reply to the discussion: Sanders tanked Clinton. [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)From the very beginning on it.
Reading the FBI and other reports it confirms what I already would have suspected, that Hillary wasn't very tech savvy. That is not a dig, it's the norm for people of her age.
But I doubt that when she was taking the SOS job if you asked her she could tell you one bit about the difference between an email server or a standalone system or the how-to of setting one up or getting it to your devices.
She said she wanted email to her Blackberry. People around her who worked for her made it happen and chose how they did it. I doubt they ever actually told her what the we're doing to any degree of specificity. Those people failed her and started the chain of events.
They decided it was the best course of action to run all work and personal email through a private server and then they handled how those records were turned over to State at the end of her tenure and they managed the server and how the responses were handled.
They failed her. Big time. First by not seeing how the private server idea would be problematic down the road. Second by not setting it up with a more professional system and staff. Third by not properly archiving all the work related emails to stay on record at State. And last by never keeping her fully informed on just what/how they were doing everything.
She trusted people areound her to do the right thing when she just wanted her email to work like she wanted it to work, and they failed her.