See also: Hillary secret email account established as she faced confirmation hearings Hillary Clinton conducted her official business as Secretary of State on a private email account, hiding them from laws requiring archiving and ultimate public disclosure. We know this thanks to a front-page story in the New York Times by Michael S. Schmidt. The revelation comes in the wake of the shocking story that the Clinton Foundation accepted major donations from foreign governments, raising the ugly possibility that quid-pro-quo understandings were reached, but hidden from the public and from history. Schmidt writes: Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. This means that multiple people conspired to violate the legal requirements. This raises the possibility of prosecution...(Read Full Post)