1. Did the law at the time Hillary was SoS say that all emails related to State Department business need to be archived, no matter what account the SoS used, personal or otherwise?
2. Does that include non-personal emails to foreign leaders/political activists, not just to State Department/Administration employees?
3. Did Hillary archive all of her non-personal emails to non-State Department/Administration employees, such as foreign leaders/political activists? Keep in mind that the phrase "political activists" includes any corporate lobbyist that wants to affect US trade laws.
If the answer to all three questions is "yes" then this is nothing more than a dime a dozen failure of journalism and the NYT owes her an apology.
If the answer to the first and second questions are "yes" and the third is "no", then this a failure of transparency and possibly illegal.
This is not about using her personal email. It is about archiving all emails related to State Department business. I see that she turned over all of her emails that were sent to State Department employees.
For government business, she emailed them on their Department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained," Nick Merrill said in an email.http://www.dailykos.com/...
But that information does not answer the questions about State Department business conducted with
non-employees, such as foreign leaders/political activists.
It seems like the answers to questions 1 and 2 is "yes" according to the 2009 NARA, section 1236.22. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Personally, I would like to hear Hillary directly answer the 3rd question and put this to rest. I have too much respect for her to believe she would use the "email is new and confusing" argument or the "didn't know of the law" argument.
And no, Nick Merrill's comments are not specific enough to the three questions above. It almost sounds like he is trying to avoid the point altogether. But I guess that depends on what the meaning of the word is, is.
Just to be clear, I have every intent of voting for Hillary in 2016 if she is the nominee. But these are valid questions that I would have for anyone who wanted my vote and volunteer efforts.
Update- While I was working on this post a thorough diary from Cthulhu appeared. Please read that diary, which takes a deep look at the law. http://www.dailykos.com/...