It's sad and surprising how often this pattern seems to repeat itself. For another example (that's probably not well-known outside Wisconsin), Scott Walker set up a private server in the Milwaukee County office for his internal communication with staff, likely at least in part to shield himself from scrutiny as his county staff did work for his campaign for the governorship:<p>- <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/court-set-to-release-emails-documents-tied-to-ex-aide-to-scott-walker-b99208267z1-246128301.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/court-set-to-rele...</a><p>- <a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/former-county-administrator-i-helped-set-up-scott-walker-s/article_c5b51126-ef30-5ca8-a9df-7aa10fcc5981.html" rel="nofollow">http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/former-...</a>
I don't see any way this doesn't look bad-even if she turns over everything and she had nothing but the best reasons for using a personal email account exclusively (doubtful) there'll always be the suspicion that she was holding something back.
I haven't seen this mentioned here, but the domain that she apparently used `clintonemail.com` was registered the same day her confirmation hearings started.<p>This most likely means that whatever she intended to do with it was premeditated. It wasn't like one day, in the middle of the Benghazi debacle, she decided to start using private email to cover her tracks.
Why is this not a bigger deal? She's obviously concealing information from the records, keeping full control of her communications that way. No person so high up would go so far to avoid record keeping without having something very important to hide.
While I don't enjoy this fact much, I can't help but vehemently dislike the author's clear bias here.<p>Stuff like this doesn't just pop out of nowhere. It's very clear this is the start of a campaign against Hillary; heck, they even went so far to talk about how Jeb, the leading GOP candidate, released a "trove" of emails during his 8 years as Governor. What they failed to really dive into, however, is how State reps have been doing this for a while. They mention it in a single sentence and then immediately go onto the next thing.