2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email Scandal for Non-Techy People [View all]IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)If she has a note from Obama saying it's okay/she has his permission, then "everyone and their brother" would have copies of that note, and the IT Security Geek Team would have documented procedures to make sure it was "up to date" with anti-virus stuff, backed up religiously, and checked for anti-spyware/hacker issues.
They didn't have any record of it in their system, and she says it was "private" - she used the same account for work and play, so she didn't follow protocol. She conflated her WORK EMAILS as being HER PROPERTY instead of her employers (aka The Government). No one has done that before (or at least they haven't been caught.)
The best analogy is the "Watergate Tapes" - Nixon thought they were "just his" but since he was recording government business, they belong to the National Archives. Same thing here - work emails belong at work.
In theory, anyway.