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Floridatexan wrote:
There was no law against a private server when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. Colin Powell had a private server and never a word was said about it.
Wrong... though that's a popular leftist talking point. Powell used a private email account... not a private unauthorized server.
U.S. Code of federal regulations on handling electronic records; updated 2009 : “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. The responsibility for making and preserving the records is assigned to the head of each federal agency.”
1950: President Truman signs into law the Federal Records Act, which establishes the records-management responsibilities of government officials.
Oct. 30, 1995: The State Department Foreign Affairs manual: “All employees must be aware that some of the variety of the messages being exchanged on E-mail are important to the Department and must be preserved; such messages are considered Federal records under the law. Records that document the formulation and execution of basic policies and decisions and the taking of necessary actions; records that document important meetings; records that facilitate action by agency officials and their successors in office.”
Nov. 4, 2005: The State Department Foreign Affairs manual: “It is the Department’s general policy that normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an authorized AIS [Automated Information System], which has the proper level of security control to provide nonrepudiation, authentication and encryption, to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information.”
June 29, 2011: A State Department cable to employees is issued under Clinton’s signature: “Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.”
August 2012: The State Department inspector general issues a scathing report on the performance of U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration that includes criticism of the fact he used a private e-mail account to handle “sensitive but unclassified” material. Gration is later fired.
“The Ambassador’s requirements for use of commercial e-mail in the office and his flouting of direct instructions to adhere to Department policy have placed the information management staff in a conundrum: balancing the desire to be responsive to their mission leader and the need to adhere to Department regulations and government information security standards,” the IG report said.