Terry Newell is a former Air Force Officer, Director of Training for the U.S. Department of Education, and Dean of Faculty of the Federal Executive Institute. He currently runs a firm called Leadership for a Responsible Society and is an author of several books on the ethics of government. On March 12th he wrote an opinion piece for the liberal blog the Huffington Post. Assuming that his audience already knew about his topic he didn't provide that much background information,so here is what happened.While Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state she decided to use her personal email for both her personal and business email. There wasn't a rule against using personal email but it was required that she document and preserve all emails related related to agency business. If she would have used a government issued email for business it would have made these records automatically. In 2014 the State Department sent a request for her emails. Hillary sent them 55,000 pages worth of emails but had deleted any emails she considered personal.
Terry Newell argues that the way Hillary Clinton handled her emails was unethical. He believes that it came down to a choice between convenience and transparency. The ethical decision would have to have two email addresses because the public demands transparency of elected officials. She failed to be transparent again when she deleted her personal emails. He also thinks that she is failing to address the problem properly because she hasn't acknowledged that her character has come into question. instead she has focused on the fact that she hasn't technically broken any laws.
I completely agree with Terry Newell's argument. I just wonder how important this issue actually is. It seems like the only reason the nation is even paying attention to this is because republicans are trying to sabotage her campaign for presidency. They don’t seem to be concerned with transparency and Hillary Clinton doesn't seem to be trying to hide anything.
