320 Years of History
Gold Member
- Nov 1, 2015
- 6,060
- 822
[
Setting up the private server to avoid the law meets and exceeds your BS claim. And like I said before, keep your fucking deflections, you want to talk about Bush, start another thread.
Not if she didn't know it was totally illegal. Which she didn't.
Not a deflection. You trying to ignore it is a deflection in itself.
Red (from both posts):
Truly, I'm not even sure there is (or was prior to 2014) a law expressly proscribing the use of a private server or one mandating the use of government servers. I suspect there are departmental regulations about the security provisions that must be observed by government employees, but even there, I'm hard pressed to think they necessarily apply to department secretaries if folks at that level are of a mind to do something different while nonetheless doing their best to comply with the security guidelines.
After all, principals functioning at that level have wide degrees of administrative discretion, and for a departmental secretary, as with senior executives in the corporate world, one must consider whether it's more important to blithely follow the letter of a regulation or whether to do one's best to comply with its spirit. The latter is what I think Mrs. Clinton attempted to do, albeit not as well as may have perhaps been possible.
I understand too that that the "average" person, not ever functioning at the senior executive level or near it even, will have little to no understanding of the concept of executive/administrative discretion. It's not surprising that they would not for most folks in mid and lower levels of management typically have little to no discretionary decision making authority or freedom. For most "worker bees," part of doing their job well is complying with every rule. Whether they think it should be followed or not isn't within the realm of choices they are accorded the freedom to ponder, let alone make unilaterally.