> It seems the objection to this practice is that government email is supposed to be insecure by design in that anyone should be able to access it by making a F

> It seems the objection to this practice is that government email is supposed to be insecure by design in that anyone should be able to access it by making a FOIA request. To me, that seems kind of silly. I can imagine there a lot of legitimate reasons the Secretary of State would not want their email to be publicly accessible. Security doesn't mean everything is inaccessible, it means you control who, when, and where the data can be utilized. Obviously not all of the Secretary of State's email should be publicly accessible, but 1) the law as implemented by the government, and not a private individual, should control access, 2) someone needs to ensure control is maintained and prevent unauthorized access, and a private individual probably doesn't have the resources to do it.