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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅3/30/2016 7:44:57 am PDT

re: #213 Dark_Falcon

Her main priority was not actual security, nor convenience, it was preventing FOIA disclosures that would otherwise be fodder for Republican attacks. That may have been legal, but there’s no way it looks good.

I beg to differ. I am guessing that your knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a tad, uh, informal. The law does not differentiate any documents storage mechanism. If you have generated a document under any mode, it is FOIAable. Failure to disclose that document is a violation of the law. All the records kept on her server that were generated by her as SoS are FOIAable, whether or not those documents would be released, or redacted and released, or refused to be released are dictated by the law, not the mechanism of storage. Her freakin’ meeting notes are FOIAable and also subject to release under congressional order. So, no, it was not to avoid the FOIA.