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As to #3, quoting from the article, as of 2009 (emphasis mine): > agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a s

As to #3, quoting from the article, as of 2009 (emphasis mine): > 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. How did they ensure this? As a few news stories, including the linked article, have reported, they would have been immune from FOIA requests. Here's another from http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-used-private-email-account-for-state-department-business-115686.html http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-used-p... > The fact that Clinton’s emails were not a part of official State Department records until recently means many of them would not have been located in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, subpoenas or other document searches conducted over the past six years

dragonwriter 12y ago
> How did they ensure this? Yes, that's exactly the question this raises. > As a few news stories, including the linked article, have reported, they would have been immune from FOIA requests. They would not have been immune. They may have been overlooked in the course of handling such requests, although assuming anyone in the State Department offices responsible for conducting document searches in response to FOIA requests (or subpoenas, etc.) was aware of the practice, they quite probably wouldn't have been, there just would have been an extra step involved in handling the requests.