Clinton e-mails, for the lawyers

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Fellow lawyers,

We all have our specialties in law. Mine is patents.

Pretend we are sitting at a bar and not trying to win an argument. We are just educating each other so we can argue better when we are sober.

Can someone please explain what all the noise is about with Clinton's e-mail? I searched a bit of the U.S. Code and the best I understand is that Clinton needed to preserve her writings to help courts interpret the laws that she helped write.

As Secretary of State she did not help write any laws, i.e. she was not a lawmaker. Why is the news all over her?

As Secretary of State it seems that laws would favor keeping her e-mails secret.

Yes? No?