Guccifer casts out Hillary

[kandrathe]

I think her brief 20 minute, "I did it for convenience" press conference mollified her supporters. There, you see? There is a good explanation for taking control of your professional e-mail at home. You can do it for convenience. Your boss would surely understand when you conduct official business on your home account, especially when it relates to your companies external customers.

But... There is the proverbial bus that might imminently hit you. It is easy to imagine what would happen if some sales representative had no official paper trail on prospects, orders, promises, etc. Chaos. In almost every company, or government office these days, your e-mail contains the record of what you are working on and with whom. It is an important part of transference if a job changes from one individual to another. I know, when I took over my post from the guy who was retiring, a big part of the transfer was the history of his correspondence. He took the time to put it into electronic folders by subject, etc.

Even here, at the University where I work, we set up an e-mail account for every student. This is the official account where we know we can ensure communication. If they use this account to send e-mail to their instructors, they can then prove they sent in that paper on time as our IT can verify the postmarks. We know that every student entering already has one or more e-mail accounts, and they frequently need help to set up forwarding (which is allowed). We also use this e-mail account as a part of emergency notifications. We know they all have it, so they are enabled to get the message.

But, I bet it is really very hard to forward any private e-mails from the State department system to your private e-mail account. I suspect with good reason, since they would be in the habit of protecting State Secrets. What I don't really understand is *why* for all the time she was in her job that no one in the government who must have conversed with her raised any red flags. If someone told me to contact the IRS at IRS@hotmail.com, I'd first think it was illegitimate, and if serious then I'd be flabbergasted at our governments incompetence in allowing such a thing.

Yes, Hillary will probably be the Democrats candidate, unless another unknown "Obama" is out there ready to be catapulted above her again. The Republican's problem is which of the mostly extremely chauvinist (original meaning), bigoted, white, male candidates will be selected to oppose her. Granted, there are some women, and some non-white people on the list.