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The problem is not that the government doesn't know about them, it's that the PEOPLE don't know about them.

• rubiquity 12y ago
  But if the emails were sent from the government's servers the people still wouldn't know about them.
  • artmageddon 12y ago
    For all intents and purposes, yes, the people wouldn't know about it, but there's supposed to be some form of oversight into the actions of political officials, and this circumvents it.
  • joelrunyon 12y ago
    But you could (in theory), request them under a FIOA
    • Mtinie 12y ago
      I don't see a reason that you would be detered from submitting the same FIOA request for these emails. I expect the likelihood of getting a response and a set of documents sent to you would be the same as it would be if her emails were hosted through the Department of State's mail server.
      • joelrunyon 12y ago
        Because it's on a private server, not a government operated one. Gives her legal coverage.
  • nitid_name 12y ago
    If she had her own mail server, it's probably fair to assume she could have set it up as her outbound mail server and to use TLS of some sort when connecting to it.
  • pdabbadabba 12y ago
    Yes they would. They would be handed over to the National Archives as a matter of course (except the classified ones, etc.) It's still possible that they could be handed over from her personal account, but this bypasses the various controls that are supposed to be in place to ensure the fullest possible disclosure.