There may be damage, but it will be a low, stifled squeak that will only appeal to the moonbats who would glaldy believe anything to support their view.

that she may have deleted or modified. In other words, for some there would be nothing she could do to satisfy them. However, I agree, it is the correct thing to do

Officials must be required to use official resources to conduct official business, and held to that standard. The perception that this was already the law during Clinton's tenure means nothing she can do after the fact will prevent allegations of conspiracy.

I can only hope that Jeb's practices will also receive scrutiny...but the Clinton kerfuffle is likely to prevent that. That he was under different regulations will probably be forgotten.

was so foolish.

It was such a foolish thing to do. You'd think that after 25 years of enduring Clinton-bashing, HRC et al would know better.

to push her to the point that she shows all emails sent from that file. They are ruthless.

It was not smart of her to use private emails - instead of offering the privacy and protections she was hoping for it has become another talking point for the Rs.

A truly smart move would have been to never place the server in her home. She could have had this dedicated server right at the State Department.

She had to have known this would cause a stink. It was a poor decision.

I am most curious what made her want to do such a stupid thing.

her personal account is that she maintains control and gets a first look or a first screening before she passed them on the State Dept. for release.

But that review process "will take some time," according to the State Department's Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf.

"The State Department will review for public release the emails provided by Secretary Clinton to the Department[.]"

This is the problem and this is why it is not going to go away very quickly. Had the State Dept. actually had control of all of her State emails, this would be great. As it is, this is only a start.

rule out that Clinton did not pass them something damning or that things, not written to SD accounts, could even have been edited. The temptation would be there if something written in say 2009 looks misguided in 2015.

This is a smart Clinton move given that she totally screwed up. Not to mention, it is likely that as the SD works to professionally archive all these emails dumped on them - instead of being given to them contemporaneously - they will be accused of not working fast enough. (Possibly by HRC herself!) They then will be faced with a political problem - they can not argue that they have 100% of Clinton's emails. The best they can say is that PER HRC they have all the SD emails.

One interesting thing seen yesterday on one of the MSNBC shows - her aide Huma A. (Weiner's wife) had an account on the Clinton server as well. As she worked for the SD, they need to get those emails too. Because BOTH of them were off the SD server, the RW will have a field day if this is true -- as they already have lots of CT about her.

better to keep control of your correspondence than try to control it when it is in government archives.

Especially Rove's internet warriors.

But I do work for a government and all our e-mails are backed up. We cannot erase any old sent or received e-mails. They are saved for years. I imagine that the State Department has even more sophisticated backup system than in our office.