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> I work for a legal software company so I can tell you that there are still lawyers practicing now who cannot use computers almost at all despite being very sm

> I work for a legal software company so I can tell you that there are still lawyers practicing now who cannot use computers almost at all despite being very smart people. Don't they have to type reports or briefs while in law school using Word? Don't they have to use WestLaw and other search programs in law school? Don't they buy things on Amazon? Search for articles in Wikipedia? > so it just seems to me that she didn't really understand the situation.... There were people telling her not to use the private server. Moreover, I think almost anyone working for government would understand that official Secretary of State business belongs on government emails and servers and not an email server in one's home with private email addresses. She was doing what she was doing so she could delete the emails so that people could not do Freedom of Information Act requests.

tdb7893 10y ago
Lawyers do now but they used to search through large books for them and it's only in maybe the last decade or two that computer skills really became important and many law firms were really resistant to computerization. She hasn't practiced law it seems since before I was born and I can pretty easily say that you could have definitely been a lawyer then without computer skills. I don't think the whole thing was against FOIA requests. I might be wrong but I thought she had originally tried to get a more secured blackberry like Obama has and that would've been subject to FOIA requests. She deleted emails before turning them over to the FBI because she didn't want them subject to an FOIA request but as someone who would not want every conversation on his phone public I can't get too mad about it. As always my opinion on it is same as my opinion on most dumb things people have done, mindbogglingly stupid, but not malicious. Fun Fact: I was talking to a Westlaw salesman and apparently when the Westlaw website first came out he was trying to sell it to a law office and after telling the lawyer how much time he was going to save because of it he just replied "why would I want to save time when I bill by the hour".
- davidf18 10y ago
  > "why would I want to save time when I bill by the hour". :-) Another reason besides security for using government servers is that the emails were supposed to be available for FOIA requests by law. I can certainly see why someone may not want to be subject to FOIA for any kinds of mistakes, etc. but that is the law. If Clinton didn't like the idea of FOIA so very much, she should not have become Secretary of State (or a Senator for that matter).

tdb7893 10y ago

Lawyers do now but they used to search through large books for them and it's only in maybe the last decade or two that computer skills really became important and many law firms were really resistant to computerization. She hasn't practiced law it seems since before I was born and I can pretty easily say that you could have definitely been a lawyer then without computer skills. I don't think the whole thing was against FOIA requests. I might be wrong but I thought she had originally tried to get a more secured blackberry like Obama has and that would've been subject to FOIA requests. She deleted emails before turning them over to the FBI because she didn't want them subject to an FOIA request but as someone who would not want every conversation on his phone public I can't get too mad about it. As always my opinion on it is same as my opinion on most dumb things people have done, mindbogglingly stupid, but not malicious. Fun Fact: I was talking to a Westlaw salesman and apparently when the Westlaw website first came out he was trying to sell it to a law office and after telling the lawyer how much time he was going to save because of it he just replied "why would I want to save time when I bill by the hour".

davidf18 10y ago
> "why would I want to save time when I bill by the hour". :-) Another reason besides security for using government servers is that the emails were supposed to be available for FOIA requests by law. I can certainly see why someone may not want to be subject to FOIA for any kinds of mistakes, etc. but that is the law. If Clinton didn't like the idea of FOIA so very much, she should not have become Secretary of State (or a Senator for that matter).