Madeleine Albright told Mark Halperin on “Morning Joe” Monday that she would not approve of a deputy using a personal email server or private email account. (RELATED: Clinton Wrecked State Department’s Post-9/11 Digital Information Security)
Albright, Bill Clinton’s former secretary of state, also suggested that the “government generally has to catch up with a variety of ways of using technology.” (RELATED: Hillary Clinton Can’t Say What New Revelations Will Come From Her Emails Because She Didn’t Review Them)
Willie Geist: Your personal feelings aside though, Secretary Albright, about Hillary Clinton, wouldn’t you be concerned if it weren’t Hillary Clinton, if it were some other official, if it were some other head of the State Department department who was using a private email server. Would that concern you?
Madeline Albright: Others had, I understand, but I really do think that what we have to figure out the technology. And by the way, when I was at the State Department, we still had Wang computers. And what really happens is, I think our government generally has to catch up with a variety of ways of using technology.
Mark Halperin: If you’re secretary of state and your deputy secretary of state said, “I want to do all my email on a personal server, on a private email account,” would you approve that?
Albright: I would not, no.