I wanted to share a thought about the email controversy concerning Hillary Clinton. She gave an interview on Sept. 4 to Andrea Mitchell from NBC, and Clinton said, “I did all my business on my personal email (in the Senate), I was not thinking a lot when I got in (to the State Department). There was so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world. I didn’t really stop and think what kind of email system there would be.”
Just to clarify. I worked in State Department about 50 feet from the Secretary’s office. When I arrived, a gentleman from the IT department came to my office and set up three accounts for me — Unclassified, Secret and Top Secret. Each came with its own specific email address. The vast majority of my work was on the classified accounts. And, I never used a personal email account for anything work related.
Secretary Clinton makes it sound like she had to fend for herself when it came to setting up email accounts. I am going to suggest that the IT department would perform the same services for the Secretary of State as they would for me. I am also going to suggest if most of my work involved classified material that perhaps the same might be true for the Secretary of State.
In the same interview, Hillary Clinton said, “At the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been so confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to these questions.”
Let me just suggest, at the end of the day — it does raise a lot of questions. And I think the answers are very unsettling.
Alan Ekrem
Camano Island
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