Probably what was actually going on when this picture was taken.
Sorry, I don’t post here just about ever (mainly lurk), but I thought this might be worth sharing, so my formatting norms are probably all wrong.
So like most of you who have had your heads swirling in this election, we’ve probably wasted a good solid week of time hearing and talking about Secretary Clinton’s e-mail server etc. We’ve heard about the potential security flaws, how many devices she used, etc. until we were sick. But never have I actually heard somebody describe just what was on those servers.
For some reason I got bitten by a FOIA bug today and decided it just might be interesting to see what exactly the USSOS does from day to day on her sketchy e-mail server. The answer: nothing all that special.
I would say about 50% of the e-mails sent to her are articles somebody forwarded to her, and about 50% of HRC’s responses are “pls print.” The rest is a mix between daily schedules, jokes, comments on the days talking points, people asking to have a book signed, reminders to take a nap, and my favorite, a handwritten prayer that had “Top Secret” stamped all over it. (Though it appears that it was later deemed unclassified...SMH)
Never, not once in the probably 200 e-mails I randomly sampled did I see anything that would involve the day to day operations of being SOS. If anything I fully understand why she setup the server. IT KEPT HER OFFICIAL ONE MANAGEABLE.
Could she have probably gotten hrod17junk@state.gov? Probably. And in hind sight, it would have been a good idea to do so just so this “scandal” never would have happened. And did some classified information probably leak into some of those e-mails? Probably technically. But I highly doubt there is any more leakage in those e-mail than what normally occurs when people in her position just talk about their days.
And for the lazy, here are some links to the FOIA “Virtual Reading Room”
foia.state.gov/…
foia.state.gov/… (The “Top Secret” Prayer is in this batch)
And the master list:
foia.state.gov/…
I am pointing every single person I hear talking about this to those links and will make them look at some of the e-mails from now on before engaging in any type of e-mail debate.
UPDATE:
Here’s a picture of the “Top Secret” Prayer.
