[Gaffer]

He tried to rationalize it by saying that since she was conducting such business with other Department officials over their government accounts, she had “every expectation they would be retained.”

There's the BIG lie. It wasn't just a "personal account" on some arbitrary email server. It is an email server controlled by her, likely in her home or tucked away somewhere. It also is not just for her. It likely has a lot of other email accounts on it for those state department and other people to correspond with her, and those emails would also not be on government email servers.

[bert]

The domain registration data was posted yesterday. She set up a domain for the purpose of having private email.

The question that has not yet been asked is “regarding Obama’s black berry, does he have a private non .gov e mail account over which presidential business is conducted?”

[Pearls Before Swine]

It also is not just for her. It likely has a lot of other email accounts on it for those state department and other people to correspond with her, and those emails would also not be on government email servers.

For US government employees, records of those emails should exist on the other employees' end, at government-run servers. UNLESS, there was a whole network of high-level US people using private email addresses to circumvent record keeping. THAT would be a major conspiracy, and one that could more easily be unraveled than the concentrated misdeeds of one person (i.e., Hil).