Hillary was running her own personal email server completely separate from the government system.

As I posted in the Hillary Thread it has now been confirmed that she was in violation of State Department policy during her entire tenure and for 2 more years until she turned over, or was forced to, 55,000 pages of emails.  

We do not have all facts yet; let us not jump to conclusions either way...

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From your link

"The Health and Human Services Department initially turned over to the AP the email addresses for roughly 240 appointees -- except none of the email accounts for Sebelius, even one for her already published on its website. After the AP objected, it turned over three of Sebelius' email addresses, including a secret one. It asked the AP not to publish the address, which it said she used to conduct day-to-day business at the department. Most of the 240 political appointees at HHS appeared to be using only public government accounts.

The AP decided to publish the secret address for Sebelius -- KGS2(at)hhs.gov -- over the government's objections because the secretary is a high-ranking civil servant who oversees not only major agencies like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services but also the implementation of Obama's signature health care law. Her public email address is Kathleen.Sebelius(at)hhs.gov.

At least two other senior HHS officials -- Donald Berwick, former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Gary Cohen, a deputy administrator in charge of implementing health insurance reform -- also had secret government email addresses, according to the records obtained by the AP.

A spokesman for Cohen, Brian Cook, said the nonpublic address that HHS listed in its records -- Gary.Cohen1(at)cms.hhs.gov -- was created after Cohen rejoined the department in August 2012 following a brief absence and all emails now are directed to his public government email account. Cook called the suggestion that Cohen ever had a secret account "news to everyone, including Gary."

Not sure how we keep Iraq from eventually becoming an ally of Iran.

Our own country's long-term interests in the Persian Gulf region would be best served by our achieving our own reconciliation and normalization of relations with Iran. Neither of us can change the history between us, but there's absolutely no reason why we should both continue to allow past animus to hold the future of both countries in perpetual captivity.

It's not unlike our relations with Cuba. At some point in time, everyone has to recognize that what's done is done, and for everyone's sake it's time to forgive one another and move on.

One of the big flaws in "big government" is it's inertia in the face of change. The transition from the paper/cable/telephone communication system of the recent past to the newer internet/e-mail method is obviously a work in progress.

I have yet to see a definitive explanation of exactly where, when and how HRC or anybody in the administration actually broke the rules and regulations, which seem to have several truck-sized loopholes in them.

What we think has nothing to do with what the policies, protocols and rules/regs were at the time, does it?

I have less of a problem with Hillary and her staff communicating about the day to day, unclassified, aspects of the job than I did with Karl Rove and his cronies using personal e-mail accounts to engineer the US Attorney firings and God knows what else.  It matters why one is using a "secret" account.

And as far as "private" v. "public," unless we all can have immediate and ongoing access to the contents of people's government e-mail accounts, those government accounts are, for all intents and purposes, way more private than they are public.  Oh, you can make a FOIA request for them, but you may not live long enough to get them, since, as I understand it, the people responsible for reviewing and archiving the e-mails are so far behind they may never catch up.

As for Hillary - I don't know if it was okay, jim.  I don't know if State's IT people vetted her system, if it was adequately firewalled and secure. And neither do you.

Let's face something, shall we?  We have about as much chance of getting accountability and transparency from our elected, appointed officials as we do of being on the next mission to the international space station.  It's all smoke and mirrors, kabuki, farce - pick one - but what it isn't is being responsive to the people - regardless of party affiliation.  

That said, if Sen. Menendez is correct in his assertion that he didn't cross any ethical boundaries in his relationship with Dr. Melgen, he sure seems to have been skirting the frontiers of impropriety with his rather strenuous advocacy on the ophthalmologist's behalf.

This is why anyone who has any business whatsoever pending before lawmakers in any capacity should steer clear of any gift giving and exchanges with friends / acquaintances in both elective or appointed public office. The appearance of a conflict of interest is often as damaging as any actual conflict itself, because both serve to further undermine already-fragile public confidence in the integrity of the political process.

We're actually in the midst of preparations for our pending move to Hilo, which we anticipate will be completed by mid-June. We're flying over there tonight to meet tomorrow morning with the contractor who's been doing the remodeling. He's already finished the bathrooms, and is about to start on our kitschy '70s-era kitchen by knocking out the interior walls so that the kitchen looks out over the dining room, and replacing all the cupboards.

Buying a new home while deciding to hang onto the old one has become a time-consuming proposition, not to mention pretty expensive. We've already bought a brand-new range & oven, dishwasher and refrigerator for the remodeling, and will be buying new furniture for the Hilo house as well. We're not shipping any furniture over to the Big Island; the old stuff is staying right where it is, here in Kuliouou Valley. Elder Daughter will continue to live here for the time being, and we'll still have a place to stay whenever we need to return to Oahu for whatever the reason, work, etc.

But there will be no vacation travel to exotic locales this year. We might visit the folks in south Texas and Southern California come the December holidays. And we're taking two weeks off in June to square things away in our new home and get ourselves reoriented to new environs. While we've gotten to know Hilo town pretty well, we want to familiarize ourselves with the rest of East Hawaii island.

While African Americans are 63% of the city's population, per the DOJ report they accounted for 86% of all police traffic stops within Ferguson city limits. Conversely, white Americans comprise about 33% of the city population, yet accounted for only 13% of all traffic stops.

In other words, the DOJ found that while black drivers were being deliberately and systematically targeted by Ferguson police, white drivers were far less likely to be pulled over in the first place.

Further, the DOJ report noted that black drivers were more likely to receive multiple citations per police traffic stop, than were white drivers.

In one specific instance noted by the report, a 32-year-old black resident who was sitting in his car on the street after a basketball game was confronted by a white police officer because the vehicle's window tinting was darker than legally allowable by city ordinance.

This man was ultimately charged with eight counts, including making two false declarations for providing a short form of his first name ("Mike" rather than "Michael"), and for giving a current address that, although totally legitimate, was different than the one listed on his current driver's license because he had recently moved.

When factored into the overall equation, that could account for the DOJ's conclusion about the disparity in the actual rates of ticketing by Ferguson police officers.