The Patriot Post® · Hillary's Email May Have Broken Laws

There are rules governing how government officials can treat information. And in keeping a furtive email, Hillary Clinton has possibly run afoul not only of record keeping laws but an embezzlement statute. Shannen Coffin writes at National Review that the National Archives and Records Administration has a 1995 regulation on the books that Hillary and Co. possibly violated. The law reads in part, “Agencies with access to external electronic mail systems shall ensure that federal records sent or received on these systems are preserved in the appropriate recordkeeping system.” Remember: This regulation was adopted 20 years ago when the Clinton administration’s White House website looked like it was designed by a middle school student – ancient history in web-time. Furthermore, the embezzlement statute, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy points out, is not limited to money. As the law is written, it applies to information. In keeping her emails from the archivists, Clinton and her aides have sunken into deep, dark water.