Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Eventually, we were allowed to have Federal email addresses. Eventually, we were allowed to contact our Federal and State counterparts. Eventually, we were allowed to used our Federal email on a limited basis for personal business. But we were told--loudly and repeatedly--never to send Federal information to our private email addresses. This made absolute sense because our private emails were hosted by a commercial, third-party ISPs (Internet Service Providers) such as AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. The Federal Government could not control or secure information passed to any third-party, non-federal, commercial host.

However, at the time, the rules never prevented a Federal employee from having a PRIVATE SERVER--one which did NOT depend on outside third-party hosts. So, Hillary Clinton set up a PRIVATE SERVER, and the FBI has since decided that she broke no Federal law. 

Now, foreign governments or outside hackers, have obtained my personal information which is now sold in the dark or deep web, where stolen data is encrypted and used by shady fellows. Why? Because internal FEDERAL servers have been hacked. Those agencies include:

Office of Personnel Management;

State Department; 

White House; 

USPS; 

IRS; 

NOAA;

and many, many others. 

Let's get it straight here. While these FEDERAL servers were hacked by foreign or hostile actors, the FBI found no evidence that Hillary Clinton's PRIVATE server was ever hacked (FBI Report). The FBI suggests that her private server could have been hacked. But it was not. 

Did she commit a crime? 

The FBI found no evidence to conclude that HC clearly, intentionally and willfully mishandled classified information; or exposed vast quantities of materials in such a way as to support intentional misconduct; or indicated disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. 


Intentionality and willfulness are the key legal requirements for criminal charges. We don’t imprison or execute people for making mistakes—especially if these mistakes are not intentional and they have no results (such as exposing secret material). 

Is this issue too complicated for most people to understand? Yes. Is it an issue to engender suspicion and distrust? Yes. Is it an issue? Not in my opinion. 

In fact, a private server, with 24-hour cyber-security staff, might just be a solution to frequent hacking of federal data by FOREIGN Governments. They did not hack HC's server, probably because they did not know she had one. How clever. 

As to the "missing" emails. As a Federal employees, I was regularly told by IT to DELETE emails so as to not take up server space. I'll bet that as a Federal employee, I've deleted thousands of emails. Did I delete my federal emails to hide anything? No. And when getting ready to leave Federal employment, I deleted personal emails to my family, along with irrelevant Federal emails—those sent again and again with a reply or "thanks," or duplicates, while leaving the rest to the agency. Did I break the law? No. Did Hillary? The FBI found that, like other email users, HC regularly deleted emails, and they found no attempt to intentionally conceal emails. 

Grow up, folks. This is a bogus issue.   

The E-mail Controversy
October 25, 2016 


So, once I was a Federal employee, and my tenure spanned from the early nineties to 2010. During that time, electronic communication became possible.


I remember the caution with which my agency approached using emails for internal communication. For years, we could not use emails to communicate to our state counterparts or employees in other Federal agencies -- because the technology was new, because it was not clear to most Federal IT specialists how to deal with security risks.