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In reply to the discussion: More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)A close friend was on the Clinton Whitehouse staff, and would endlessly complain about the very poor quality of the Whitehouse email system, after working in the corporate world. She would really have to kiss up to IT to get any help at all. Others here on DU that have worked for the State Department have their own huge complaints about the government email, more concerned with security and firewalls than actually working, about the difficulty of signing in and working remotely. My sister worked remotely for the Department of Agriculture, and had a special laptop that had a security card that needed to be inserted in the laptop in order to work. The card would go bad, and she would be unable to work for a week at a time, and have to drive sixty miles to the nearest Ag office to get a new card. That is government IT at work, or at not working. This happened in 2016, not the Clinton administration.
Most people work online with what they know and what is comfortable to them. The vast world of email users are not techies, they learn a particular application, and are loath to change that and move to a new one. They are also into efficiency and simplicity, qualities not emphasized in government bureaucracies.
Hillary also clearly stated a long time ago that she would use secure telephones, or face-to-face meetings for situations where classified information was being transmitted. I also read almost twenty years ago, or perhaps longer, that she didn't believe in putting things in writing because it would come back to haunt people in public hearings and lawsuits. I think she relied very little on email, unlike the rest of us.