No consistency of assertions or even, consideration, given to the criticism of the NYT's public editor of the initial article.  Mrs. Clinton's press conference's most serious analysis was a discussion of the UN backdrop of Picasso's Guernica, apparently indicating her hawkishness and her demeanor--was she too regal, was she ticked off?  

However, the emails have given an opportunity to resuscitate old corpses so as to play into the she's a blast from the past/we need someone new is all we got Republican scenario. It has given the Republican non-candidates a look over there at that shiny object moment.   Even defenses of Mrs. Clinton serve no constructive purpose.  

If they get one that links her to the production and distribution of the video that every Arab/Muslim country except Libya was rioting about at the time, that'd just be gravy.

Having said that, what was she thinking?

Huffpo has an hysterical article featuring fifteen year olds with Blackberrys showing how they had two email accounts on their phones and how easy it was and how they were "smarter" than Hillary.  

And they were.

It seems to me that sometimes these folks in the spotlight like to show that they have feet of clay - and that if we ignore that fact - well... they told us and so it is on us when they behave in a reprehensible way in the future...

At this time, it seems to me as if we are in store for a Hillary-Jeb confrontation as our entertainment for the 2016 season.

I will hide until its over.
I guess I will root for Hill...
Because Jeb is so ultimately repulsive...

Bot Jeez Louise...

d. For example, just like paper records, E-mail messages that may constitute Federal records  include:

(1) E-mail providing key substantive comments on a draft action memorandum, if the E-mail message adds to a proper understanding of the formulation or execution of Department action;

(2) E-mail providing documentation of significant Department decisions and commitments reached orally (person to person, by telecommunications, or in conference) and not otherwise documented in Department files;

(3) E-mail conveying information of value on important Department activities, e.g. data on significant programs specially compiled by posts in response to a Department solicitation, if the E
-mail message adds to a proper understanding of Department operations and responsibilities.

And then, there's how to preserve them:

For those E-mail messages and attachments that meet the statutory definition of records, it is essential to ensure that the record documentation include the E-mail message, any attachments, and essential transmission data (i.e. who sent themessage, the addressees and any other recipients, and when it was sent). In addition, information about the receipt of messages should be retained if users consider it necessary for adequately documenting Department activities. If transmission and necessary receipt data is not printed by the particular E-mail system, the paper copies must be annotated as necessary to include such data. Until technology allowing archival capabilities for long-term electronic storage and retrieval of E-mail messages is available and installed, those messages warranting preservation as records (for periods longer than current E-mail systems routinely maintain them) must be printed out and filed with related records. Instructions for printing and handling of Federal records for most of the Department's existing E-mail systems have been prepared and will be available through bureau Executive Offices

I mean, is it any wonder government moves as slow as molasses?  Who has time to manually keep up with all the preservation?  

Is each person, regardless of rank, expected to do his or her own preservation?  Is it a delegatable responsibility?

Anyway, I guess what this is starting to look like is that even if no laws were broken, and even if no regulations were violated, there may be some questions of judgment.

"Nine years after he made his Gridiron Club dinner debut as a fresh-faced young senator, President Obama took the podium again Saturday night, sounding wistful about the passage of time.

"Just a few years ago I could never imagine being in my 50s," he mused. "And when it comes to my approval ratings, I still can't."

1. I have surrendered to responsible officials all classified or administratively....

Link

1.  Eight years as wife of a president, only policy "achievement" was the fiasco of a health bill.
   
2.  Eight years as a senator from a safe seat she carpetbagged into from New York.  No committee chairs or notable legislative achievements.
   
3.  Four years as secretary of state.  No clear major administrative or diplomatic achievements during that time.
   
4.  Scandals from Whitewater to Rose Law Records to the way she enabled the trashing of Monica Lewinsky ("a troubled women") to State Department emails.