wouldn't she just pick up a phone and call, send a text msg, or visit in person?
I rather doubt, or I would hope to doubt, that anything in an email from the State Dept, would be something that would "harm" the state dept too badly. And this is a woman who travels with personnel, secretaries, advisors, hair and makeup staff... She's a walking, talking, living, breathing entourage since the days of First Lady of Arkansas. I don't doubt that most items that were in her "inbox" weren't a cc or bcc item, and any response was sent back to a gov sate dept official. Perhaps because of her status as a figure head, a personal e-mail system was the best manner of maintaining the ability to only handle real information that was pertinent to the job. If everyone had her .gov email, I would think she would have quite a it random crap thrown into the mix. With a personal account, she could control better who had her email account and keep the sheer volume to a minimum; which was still probably a huge daily task to run thru... I actually wouldn't be surprised to hear that she didn't have a staffer who whose task was to maintain her e-mail account and mark "important" items for her to handle daily. (You can log onto multiple accounts, for multiple people on these phones... I have both mine and my sons email accounts active on my phone so I can keep track of what types of email he's getting and track what hes "purchasing" from the App Srore - so he doesn't go over a pre-pd acct and start sending extra fees onto the bill).
I'm not sure if that would be worse for her to admit or any of these public politicians and other famous people to admit? That they spend very little time sorting thru their emails, Twitter accts, Facebook, Instagram, etc accts, text msgs, voicemails, etc. Most of them maintain personal assistants and depending on how extensive the job or popularity is, the personal assistant may have an entire team managing the many forms of communication that we have to navigate thru. For myself, who is a basic nobody, I will end up with 100's of emails daily, I will have a deluge of Facebook and Twitter items (I'm not even on Instagram or some of the other popular posting sites - mainly to maintain my sanity), and these items take a fair amount of time out of my life to deal with. My own work system asks me to use a "preferred email" to send work related materials to. I chose to use my personal account and NOT set up a different email for work related matters. Now, my work does maintain an "overall" email address that the public may contact and that EVERYONE who has to access the public space has the password to. There are items of work that not everyone at the work should be handling or messing with; so those are items that are routed to my preferred email inbox to deal with. Anything I think the whole staff needs to know or deal with, I forward it into the general email inbox. My boss has to trust that the job I was hired for and the items I must personally handle are #1 being handled and #2 that I'm doing the job in the proper manner I should as a professional. Could I get away with certain things or let other things slide, sure, but I certainly wouldn't be effective for very long or set a professional code of conduct for my career over the long haul.
This really all boils down to, do you trust Hillary Clinton to do the job she was hired to do? Is she competent at doing the job? Has anything nefarious or underhanded or "bad for America" handled under her years of service to the country? Because if she is President, there are a ton more private, confidential, behind closed door types of items that she would be required to handle on the behalf of The American People. If you don't feel she's the best person for the job, then clearly, she won't have the public's confidence or their vote. If you feel she's handled the job of Senator and SoS well, and has represented the people well, and you feel will make a positive difference in the lives and best interest of this country and its people, then, you will choose to vote for her.
Seriously, what could be put into an email that couldn't be said on a phone call or in person meeting and isn't a matter of public record? If she wanted to conduct underhanded, nefarious plots to harm the American People and this country, she wouldn't bother placing the information in an email, especially, when that email account is more than likely handled by a staff of assistants anyway and would be viewed by multiple parties on either side of the email exchange. She would place a phone call or show up at a meeting, or even use foreign consulate as a "meeting ground" for 2 different parties that she didn't want the public to know about on sovereign state ground.
The reality is, the Clinton's lives are so public and have been for such a long time, I doubt she can take a shit without at least 5 other people knowing about it... Like I said, it all boils down to whether you think she can handle the job as President or not. I'm fairly certain that she could manage the nations affairs just fine. Will she do her best to serve, yes, I think she would. Is her "best" the right fit for Leader of the Free World or Commander in Chief or Executive of the Nation? I suppose that is a question we will have to answer for ourselves once we hear her views on policy and direction she envisions for America. AND would she be able to execute those visions, or would we see another 4-8 yrs of Republican witch hunts and investigations and compromise that doesn't help the struggling lower economically challenged citizens?
That's the question we will all be asking ourselves thru primaries and possibly General election.
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