"I'm among those who believes Hillary Clinton's use of a privately run email server is an abuse of power. Doing so appears to have skirted laws ensuring good governance and it may well have exposed her communications to adversaries (including some who would have reason to use the contents of her email to help Republicans win the White House), even if her email would have been just as targeted at State, per reports about persistent hacking of it."
"For many people, the NSA represents an intrusion of privacy. However, 'Emailgate' is an opportunity for the NSA to show Americans that it can protect the nation from possible security breaches, even when powerful members of government have made these errors of judgment. Nobody is accusing Hillary Clinton of anything treasonous or malicious, after all, Powell and Rice also used private emails at times."
"If anyone in the country engaged in such behavior, the NSA would have likely had information on all of this citizen's communication and activities. If Clinton compromised national security in any way, the most renowned record-keeping agency in the U.S. government should help answer some questions. If the NSA has the full record of Clinton's emails, it should hand them over to Congress."
Hillary Clinton's use of a privately run email server is described as an abuse of power that appears to have skirted laws meant to ensure good governance and may have exposed communications to adversaries. Persistent hacking reports suggest those emails could have been targeted like State Department accounts. The choice to use a private server is characterized as motivated by convenience and control rather than proven concealment of Clinton Foundation ties. Calls exist for the NSA to disclose any collected emails to help determine whether national security was compromised, since private servers stored at a residence may have contained sensitive or classified material.
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