Federal Records Act of 1950 states:
§ 3101. Records management by agency heads; general duties
The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency's activities.
in short, last year the FRA was updated to include wording for e-mail but the Dept of State already had their own guidelines set in place:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/88404.pdf
so HC did what every single other Sec of State did and used a personal e-mail acct...no problem, but you have to turn over those e-mail for record keeping, which she didn't until it was requested. So if the FRA is ambiguous in its definition of records, then wouldn't you think the Sec of State would know her agencie's own policies that have been in place for the duration of her term regarding the keeping of e-mail as records? i'm not trying to hate on HC either, but this is yet another example of so-called leaders behaving badly...and nothing will come of it.
anyone work for the dept of state in the IT field to verify this btw?
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