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> "These are all good questions. It sounds like she wanted to retain her personal email and be able to field personal business from that same account."

Except she could have done that with her .gov email. Classification laws state she can delete personal emails from her .gov account without fear of wrongdoing. So your theory falls flat.

One reason she might have wanted to setup her own private email server was to skirt FOIA requests. Which seems plausible since there were numerous FOIA requests during the Benghazi ordeal. All of which were replied to with 'we have no emails'. It took Syndey Blumenthal's AOL account to be compromised for everyone to discover Clinton's private email server.

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> One reason she might have wanted to setup her own private email server was to skirt FOIA requests

This is unlikely. It has to do with her addiction to Blackberry phones and the fact they were insecure. She refused to give up using it. The email server was hosted at home since her 2008 campaign.

I assume she just continued to use the server afterward.

She even contacted the NSA to find a solution to keep using her Blackberry but they couldn't find one. It was just too insecure.

Edit: upon further investigation you might be right...

> One year earlier, during her own presidential campaign, Clinton had said that if elected, “we will adopt a presumption of openness and Freedom of Information Act requests and urge agencies to release information quickly.”

> But in those first few days, Clinton’s senior advisers were already taking steps that would help her circumvent those high-flown words, according to a chain of internal State Department emails released to Judicial Watch, a conservative nonprofit organization suing the government over Clinton’s emails.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-clintons-e...