WASHINGTON, D.C. Mar. 3 (DPI) – She used an unsecure personal email for nearly fours years while Secretary of State, then provided only portions of those emails for the public record. She allowed her family foundati0n to accept millions from foreign governments while she worked as the nation’s top diplomat.
Now – at least based on thousands of reader comments damning her today – it looks inconceivable that Hillary Clinton has even a chance of securing the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
Turns out that Hillary Clinton registered her private domain on the first day of her Senate confirmation hearings for Secretary of State — see image above — which all seems to underscore that Clinton consciously and purposefully operated outside the parameters of the position, ignoring not simply the protocols of her employer but security standards set by the government itself.
Last week it was revealed that Clinton, while secretary of state, allowed her family foundation to accept donations from foreign governments, including a $500,000 gift from the government of Algeria.
The reader comments on NYTimes.com today, more than 1500 as of 11am EST, reflect widespread dismay of her conduct, even from supporters who thought they understood the personality of this longtime public figure. Phrases like “totally unbelievable” and “she is disqualified to hold public office” appeared in the most recommended posts:
It’s utterly ridiculous that she didn’t have a government e-mail and I say this as someone who wants to see her run. I’m not sure if she can sustain this or not.
I find it odd that nobody above her (or another secretary or anyone in the State Department) didn’t address it when she was in office. It must have been quite clear that she didn’t have a .gov e-mail when she was dealing with colleagues.
She acts as though the rules do not apply to her. I think that means she is disqualified to hold public office.
There is that side of Mrs. Clinton where the entitlement is so strong she just can’t resist it. As an attorney, Mrs. Clinton should have known better than to try and game it by using a personal email account from which to conduct State Dept. business. It wasn’t smart from a security point of view and it is against the rules not only in government, but throughout all industries.
Why did she decide to do business off of the government’s servers? Why does she get to decide what records the government now gets? The inherent wrong in that decision should have been apparent to her from the start. That is wasn’t, or that she ignored it, makes her unfit. What other rules would Mrs. Clinton decide to override? What gives her the right to set her own rules?
All the reasons why Mrs. Clinton was passed over in the 2007 Democratic primary are as valid today as they were then. We don’t need another entitled candidate. We need to make better leadership choices.
As a retired Foreign Service officer, let me say that what Mrs. Clinton did is wrong on so many levels that I don’t even know where to begin. Had I (at a much more modest rank than Secretary of State) attempted to do the same as she did, I would have been hauled up on violating any number of basic security and archiving protocols. And I’d be real curious to know how she managed to get a personal E-mail account registered onto either the classified or unclassfied E-mail system at State.
Wow, this is embarrassing, especially in our age of obsession with secure communications at top government levels. Didn’t she foresee this becoming yet another weapon against her in 2016?
This is totally unbelievable! The Secretary of State using a personal email account and then later she is deciding which of the emails are given to the US government as a matter of our public record.