Get the facts about Hillary Clinton’s email

EDITOR: I read the recent op-ed piece about indicting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and I would like to explain a few things:

1. The secretary of state has clearance to see all documents, top secret or not. So the author’s first point is moot. Of course, as secretary of state, she could declassify them if she deemed it in the public interest.

2. There is no law against the use of a private email server. Not one piece was lost or stolen.

3. Clinton’s server was never broken into, as opposed to the Pentagon, General Services Administration and the State Department’s own servers. So much for the less-secure argument.

And here’s the big one:

4. If Clinton would be indicted, the former secretaries Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell would also have to be indicted, as they did the same thing. Oh, and former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Karl Rove would have to be indicted, too. They not only used a private server and deleted more than 1 million emails, but the server was owned, operated and secured by the Republican National Committee.

Gerald Koeller,

Athens