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Fwd: HRC and the email flap

From:cheryl.mills@gmail.com To: pir@hrcoffice.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com, kristinakschake@gmail.com Date: 2015-03-07 15:57 Subject: Fwd: HRC and the email flap

---------- Forwarded message ---------- fyi from Tom F -- not great, but useful to know. I'm thinking about writing an op-ed myself from the point of view of a former State Dept official. Begin forwarded message: Anne-Marie, That doesn't sound unreasonable to me, but she needs to get out there and say it and explain it. I am sure she has a case to be made and right now it is her critics who are making it. Best wishes, Tom On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Anne-Marie Slaughter <slaughtr@princeton.edu > wrote: > Tom -- just to follow up, didn't you just move away from AOL a couple of > years ago? Long after you knew you probably should have? Honestly, OTR, > EVERYONE I knew at State used our private email (I used Princeton) when we > were out of the office (except for our blackberries, which were State > issued) because it was so incredibly clunky and difficult to get onto the > State system when we were not in the office (it was a complicated set of > steps and the system always froze or crashed). We sent sensitive but > unclassified documents to our private emails so we could work on them at > home and then sent them back to our work emails. Moreover, the overall > lesson that everyone had taken away from the Clinton administration was not > to put ANYTHING politically sensitive on email period, regardless of the > system. I remember getting called on that early on -- someone assumed I was > putting something in email so that if it came out in the press later I > would look good -- a consideration that had simply never occurred to me. > What seems most unfair about this is that she was working round the clock > to master a completely new job and set of issues; the State Dept systems > were a mess; she switched from campaign to home and then stuck with that > for four years. > Best, > AM > > On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Friedman Thomas <tlfriedman1@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear Anne-Marie, Thanks for your note. Always happy to hear your > perspective. That all seems true to me, and yet... Even I evolved. I moved to > gmail, got a Mac laptop, got rid of AOL. And I am not the Secretary of > State, bound by very clear government regulations. I have to say I am > troubled by what I have read about what Hillary did. I am keeping an open > until I hear what she has to say, but it doesn't sit right with me. Just to > let you know where I stand. Thanks for reaching out. Allbest, Tom > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Anne-Marie Slaughter < > slaughtr@princeton.edu> wrote: > >> Tom, >> I'm not working directly with Hillary's folks; I can't, given my position >> as head of New America. So this reach-out is on my own initiative. As I >> read all these columns about her email, I just keep remembering two things >> from you and about you that seem very relevant. Your point: "When I sat >> down to write The World is Flat: Facebook didn't exist, Twitter was still a >> sound, the cloud was still in the sky, 4G was a parking place, LinkedIn was >> a prison, applications were what you sent to college, and Skype was a typo" >> is still the best thing I know capturing how fast our world is changing. >> You were talking about 2004, a decade ago; now we are talking about 2008, 6 >> years ago -- all of this "she should have known, she must have known" is >> ridiculous. In 2008 it was hard for the President to get a blackberry; >> State Department technology was terrible (it still is); we hadn't had any >> major data breaches, private (Target etc) or public (Wikileaks; Snowden). >> The other thing I keep remembering is how you were still using an AOL >> account until very recently. Even as sophisticated a tech guru as you just >> sticks with what you know amid the constant pressures of a busy life. We >> all know there is a better system out there; we should switch, but it's >> such a pain and we don't have time .... >> >> Just some reflections. But both seem very relevant to putting all this in >> some perspective. >> All best, >> AM > > > >