2016 Postmortem

Read the linked article. Kerry himself uses a state.gov account for his work email, but his team has the additional step of culling any occasional state department related emails on his private accounts. The explanation is pretty obvious - Kerry has hundreds of people with whom he has relationships extending back many decades.

THIS is what HRC should have done. Had she done this, all the email would have been there for inquiries and FOIA requests AND THERE WOULD BE NOTHING TO QUESTION.

So - HRC NEVER used State.gov and Kerry does as his default for State Department emails. Kerry has a process that checks for any work related email on his private accounts and archives it for the State Department. HRC obviously didn't. HRC set up a private server, Kerry did not.

Go after the fact that Rice and Powell did not secure a complete record, but the facts are that Kerry - from day 1 - has taken the steps needed to do so. Throwing mud at Kerry - who is a very good Democrat, liberal and a person who has been far cleaner than most in DC over a more than 3 decade career - to defend Clinton? In the first place, Kerry did not do what HRC did - second, even children learn that arguing that the "other kids did it too" rarely gets them out of trouble.


Attack Powell and Rice, but Powell and Rice both did not have their own servers -- they did use personal email to some degree.