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In reply to the discussion: State Department Lacks E-Mails From Clinton Aide During Key Time [View all]floppyboo
(2,461 posts)especially found this bit interesting: (from the above link)
*Digression for a relevant personal anecdote*
I actually got a taste of the US governments email system during my internship at Sandia National Laboratories in California last summer. Upon starting my internship, I was given a sandia.gov email, which I could only access from a computer on-site and with a randomly generated password each time. Every time before I could send an email through my sandia.gov email, a pop-up dialogue would ask me, Is there any classified information in this message? and if I clicked Yes it would take me to a range of classification options I could choose to mark the email with sensitive, , confidential, secret, top secret etc, if I said No it would just send the email.
Nothing I ever sent was classified (except maybe when I emailed my boss telling him I was leaving work early because I was sick, but actually drove to Sacramento to go sky-diving). But it lends me perspective on how the FBI might be investigating this case. Was her private email server even set up to ask her that question about classification any time she sent an email? And if it wasnt, was the recipient, someone hopefully with an official .gov email, marking it classified when they got it? Is that their responsibility? Questions I dont really know the answer to, but some thoughts to keep in mind.
And this is why she shouldn't have been using it! And was beyond naiive to not question EVER receiving 'confidential' email -- if the writer is correct in his suspicions. (edited to add that it is speculative, but sounds like a good explanation to me)
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