# Hilary Clinton and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Personal E-mail Account

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilary-clinton-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-personal-e-mail-account/714092/1 "2015-03-03T14:10:35Z")

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From CNN:

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> Hillary Clinton did not have a State Department email account while she served as America’s top diplomat, a senior state department official said Monday, and instead used a personal email account during her four years on the job.  
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> Nick Merrill, Clinton’s spokesman, told CNN on Tuesday morning that, “like Secretaries of State before her, she used her own email account when engaging with any Department officials.”

Of course, some of those with an axe to grind against Secretary Clinton are now piously announcing their great concern for transparent retention of e-mail records.

But as a Clinton spokesperson points out:

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> “For government business, she emailed them on their Department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained,” he said in an emailed statement. “When the Department asked former Secretaries last year for help ensuring their emails were in fact retained, we immediately said yes.”

To the extent it’s a violation, it’s one of NARA policy, and purely technical in nature. She used a personal account but sent mail to the [state.gov](http://state.gov) accounts of her staff, where that e-mail was properly retained as a record.

This is manufactured outrage.

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