I'm curious, and maybe this is a problem with the Blackberry that I don't understand, but I have more than a dozen email accounts on my phone.
Why would Mrs Clinton need to carry more than one phone to use more than one email account?
I'm sorry, but this smells just like every other politician who created their own set of rules and think that the regulations the rest of us live with don't apply to them.
Your own email server means that you have complete control of what can be audited. You don't want any history of that email trail on your server? Fine. Delete it and it's gone forever. Audit-free convenience at it's best.
No smoking guns....
For a politician, this is a good thing. For one with aspirations of being President, it's probably a mandatory page in their playbook.
Well...I'm not sure anything sent over the internet is really gone forever. Our posts on AW will live on long after we're so much putty stopping up a leak.
Taking aside any ethical/legal reasons, I wouldn't send professional email via a personal account -- or overly personal emails on a professional account -- simply because I wouldn't want to open up the possibility that my personal emails might become subject to review by attorneys.
As a young associate, I sometimes sat in windowless conference rooms for days and nights on end reviewing thousands of boxes of our clients' employees' printed-out emails, determining which ones were relevant and nonprivileged, and thus needed to be produced to the opposing side. Some of the few lighthearted moments during those mind-numbing and exhausting reviews were when we came across ill-advised sexy exchanges, temper tantrums, etc. people were silly enough to have on their work email accounts. Sure, we weeded them out, so opposing counsel never saw them. But we saw everything. And at three in the morning, we had many a hoot at the expense of those hapless employees. It was even funnier when the emails happened to be authored by people we'd met.
oh -- and many of those emails had been deleted. But a copy was still there on the server. I've also had fun with text messages that were supposedly deleted. I'm no computer whiz, but I do know that messages you delete can live on in another part of your computer or phone. You might not be able to pull them up, but a computer expert can.
Advice: if you're having an affair in the office, for the love of god, do not exchange explicit sexy banter on your work email account.
I rather doubt Hillary was exchanging sexy email banter with Bill or anyone else. Still, she might well have personal emails she wouldn't enjoy having some giddy, sleep-deprived associate giggling over at three in the morning.
I'm on team Hillary-really-should-have-used-her-official-email-account. For all kinds of reasons.
