On March 2015, it became known to the public that Hillary Clinton, during her service as the Secretary of State of the United States, had been using her family’s private email server for official communication, rather than official State Department email accounts upheld on federal servers. Those official communications included thousands, if not millions of emails that would retroactively be obvious as classified by the Department of State. The controversy unfolded against the peak of Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign and hearings held by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Some experts, including some officials, and members of Congress have challenged that her use of private messaging system software and a private server dishonored State Department protocols and procedures, as well as federal laws and State Department protocols governing recordkeeping. In response, Clinton has said that her use of personal email was in obedience to federal laws and State Department regulations and that former secretaries of state had also preserved email accounts, though not their own private servers. This was apparent as untrustworthy and cast doubts on her integrity. There is an extremely important reason why there is a strict protocol when it comes to emails pertaining to official business. While the numerous number of emails may not be currently classified as secret or top secret there is the possibility of them later receiving that classification due to the nature of the emails. People started to think that she was getting away with a violation that any other regular citizen or government employee would not be able to just due to elite status as United States Secretary of State. Nevertheless, as previously discussed several people who have already made up their minds to vote for her or her party will remain unmoved subsequently of her
On March 2015, it became known to the public that Hillary Clinton, during her service as the Secretary of State of the United States, had been using her family’s private email server for official communication, rather than official State Department email accounts upheld on federal servers. Those official communications included thousands, if not millions of emails that would retroactively be obvious as classified by the Department of State. The controversy unfolded against the peak of Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign and hearings held by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Some experts, including some officials, and members of Congress have challenged that her use of private messaging system software and a private server dishonored State Department protocols and procedures, as well as federal laws and State Department protocols governing recordkeeping. In response, Clinton has said that her use of personal email was in obedience to federal laws and State Department regulations and that former secretaries of state had also preserved email accounts, though not their own private servers. This was apparent as untrustworthy and cast doubts on her integrity. There is an extremely important reason why there is a strict protocol when it comes to emails pertaining to official business. While the numerous number of emails may not be currently classified as secret or top secret there is the possibility of them later receiving that classification due to the nature of the emails. People started to think that she was getting away with a violation that any other regular citizen or government employee would not be able to just due to elite status as United States Secretary of State. Nevertheless, as previously discussed several people who have already made up their minds to vote for her or her party will remain unmoved subsequently of her