From the linked article: > Mrs. Clinton’s aides have said her use of private email was not out of the ordinary, pointing to the fact that former Secretary of S

From the linked article: > Mrs. Clinton’s aides have said her use of private email was not out of the ordinary, pointing to the fact that former Secretary of State Colin Powell also used a personal email account, before the current regulations went into effect. But since 2009, said Laura Diachenko, a National Archives and Records spokeswoman, federal regulations have stated that “agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.” Given that retention of email was a scandal in 2007 [1], there is no way someone plugged into Washington was unaware of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controve...