# Anyone particularly care about Hillary's email?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-particularly-care-about-hillarys-email/714666 "2015-03-10T02:57:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-particularly-care-about-hillarys-email/714666/1 "2015-03-10T02:57:16Z")

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The press seems to find this a compelling story. I just don’t see the big deal. Yeah, she broke the rules. So what? I really don’t care. The emails have been turned over.

One news example. The press asks like she shot somebody.  
[http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-obama-traded-email-private-clinton-account-180116859--politics.html](http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-obama-traded-email-private-clinton-account-180116859--politics.html)

The bigger question is why emails are open to press snooping in the first place. Walk 30 feet down the hall and you can have a private conversation. Pick up the phone and talk to that person. Neither conversation is the press’ damn business. They can go fly a kite. Email that person? Suddenly everybody in the world has the right to snoop? That’s just so wrong. Yeah its based on court decisions. Its still wrong imho.

All this does is force employees to make phone calls instead of using email. It’s a PITA and the press still gets shut out.

Email isn’t formal communication like dept memos. Memos are written, revised, and often discussed in meetings before publishing.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-particularly-care-about-hillarys-email/714666/2 "2015-03-10T03:17:37Z")

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> **[Hillary supporters or fencesitters: Do you care about her email "problem"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=750785)**
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> There’s a news story in the current cycle about Hillary Clinton apparently only using her private email, not gov’t email, while Sec. of State. Her camp says she did nothing illegal or improper (not an exact quote). Meanwhile some are aghast, going so...

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-particularly-care-about-hillarys-email/714666/3 "2015-03-10T03:27:11Z")

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I didn’t see the other thread buried at the bottom of imho.

sorry for the duplicate.