This gets even worse when you learn that Hillary wasn’t simply using her own email address. She was using her own set of “homebrew” email servers which the Clintons maintain in their Chappaqua, New York home.
The white house thinks this is no big deal.
The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails — on a private account she used exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — traced back to an Internet service registered to her family’s home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press.
The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton’s secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some politicians, including Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, who were caught conducting official business using free email services operated by Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.
Most Internet users rely on professional outside companies, such as Google Inc. or their own employers, for the behind-the-scenes complexities of managing their email communications. Government employees generally use servers run by federal agencies where they work.
In most cases, individuals who operate their own email servers are technical experts or users so concerned about issues of privacy and surveillance they take matters into their own hands. It was not immediately clear exactly where Clinton ran that computer system.
Remember when Lois Lerner said her hard drives had been destroyed and, therefore, all of her email had been lost? The immediate response was “All the email should still exist on the servers.” Hillary, it seems, didn’t want to have to deal with that little snafu. If she controls the servers, she can control what’s kept, what’s deleted, what’s archived, and precisely which backups are turned over to the State Department.
By running her own server, Hillary granted herself near-complete control over the record of her official State Department interactions. HaTTiP
