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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 12, 2023

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Hillary had mountains of intent/willfulness in doing what, exactly? Please state exactly what you're implying because it isn't at all obvious to me.

All I can tell is she was trying to hide embarrassing stuff from becoming plastered over the front page of the NYT, stuff like "yeah I secretly hate Obama" or whatever, not "oh I embezzled some money". Stuff like the DNC leaks, maybe a Hatch act violation or two. The private vs public line is always a bit fuzzy when it comes to FOIA type record keeping, this isn't anything new. The fact she had her own email SERVER (with accompanying insecurities and non-cleared IT guy), not merely her own private email (which others did do before her), is not exactly "retention", though it is criminally negligent IMO (my whole point is that negligence is technically illegal but not worth prosecuting as a precedent, but willful commission of an illegal act is).

Great point about circumstantial evidence, though.

Hillary had mountains of intent/willfulness in doing what, exactly?

The construction of the server demonstrates deliberate intent to mishandle documents. It served no other purpose (other than evading FOIA laws).

She obviously showed willfulness when she directed subordinates to use specialized software and literal physical destruction to destroy the server when it was under subpoena.

The only thing we don't have is a literal confession of her state of mind.