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Originally Posted by taxwonk
Public officials do not have "private" correspondence where their public duties are concerned. Her correspondence in her official capacity is supposed to be discoverable and reviewable. That's sort f the rules of the game.
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Whatever one wants to set as rules of the game, there is no reasonable way to conduct diplomacy without some back-channel secret communications. It's simply the way things have to work - there may need to be one conversation where someone approaches the administration off the record to figure out what the reaction would be if they then approached the administration on the record.
This has been the way of diplomacy for thousands of years. If we decide that's not how we'll play, then someone else will need to take on the most sensitive negotiations and we'll have to step to the sidelines on them.
