My understanding is that an amendment to the Federal Records act, which would essentially require the things that you stated, was passed in late 2014. However, that would have been years after Hilldog stepped down from the State position. So to my layman understanding, there is no violation of record-keeping standards. The fact that she voluntarily released over 55,000 pages of emails last year seems to strengthen this notion that she was interested in transparency. Though one could respond that setting up a private email server indicates a desire to control the narrative, (at the time) there was nothing illegal about doing that. Do I think that she should have used an official email account? Yes. The use of a private email seems like poor judgement, though not a breach of the law.
However, if the allegations in the article above are true and she stored classified or otherwise sensitive material on her home server, she absolutely ought to be burned to the ground. I would hope that then-Secretary Clinton would be smart enough to use classified networks for the appropriate level of correspondence, but seeing how other government officials have been burned for doing the exact same thing, I wouldn't put it past her.
Another point to discuss is those 55,000 pages of emails she voluntarily released to the National Archives. Was that really everything she sent during her tenure at state? 55,000 pages sure is a lot of email. Over 4 years, that amounts to a little under 40 pages a day. I'm going to assume that that's both emails sent and received. It seems like the head of a major government organization would be receiving more than that daily, but we can't be certain. I'm very curious as to how her numbers compare to Secretaries Powell and Kerry. It might shed some light on what percentage of email those 55,000 pages really represent.
Anyway, withholding my judgement for now.
Let the games begin.
/sarc
