Subject: Re: Above the Law
Dope1: LOL @ you people and "intent". When Hillary! intentionally set up a server to receive and handle the information she got, you people dutifully lined up behind the specious "intent" dodge.

Jeebus, albaby1 has explained this to you repeatedly.

First of all, Hillary Clinton's "intent" was immaterial because she didn't break any laws with respect to having a private server or private email. When she became secretary of state, officials using personal email accounts only had to ensure that official correspondence was turned over to the government.

Most of Clinton's emails from her personal account went to, or were forwarded to, people with government accounts, so they were automatically archived. Any other emails were turned over to State Department officials when they issued a request to her - and several of her predecessors - in October 2014.

In November 2014 president Obama signed the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments, which required government officials to forward any official correspondence to the government within 20 days. Clinton left her role as secretary on February 1, 2013. Had she still been in office then, the penalties for non-compliance were administrative, not criminal.

So, again, by having her own email server Clinton violated ZERO criminal statutes. The harshest penalties she could have faced were a formal letter of reprimand or loss of security clearance.

Colin Powell, secretary of state under President George W Bush, used a personal email account.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush used a personal email account in order to control which correspondence was made public.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's entire staff used private email accounts.

Nikki Haley used a non-classified email system for classified communications.

White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump used personal email accounts for official business.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and former VA Secretary David Shulkin, same.

Government Executive magazine conducted a poll and found that 33% of those surveyed said they used personal email for government business "at least sometimes".

So, yet again, Hillary Clinton was not indicted, charged, or tried for using a personal email server or private email because it was not against the law to do so when she was secretary of state.