Clinton has weathered a scandal in which it was revealed that she used a private email service (based on a server located in her home in New York) for official correspondence as secretary of state. Clinton has pledged to turn all emails over to government archives, but deleted 30,000 messages deemed personal. The story raised questions of balancing government transparency and proper functioning in an era where most communications are recorded electronically.
The United States will likely continue to fail to fund and effectively administer existing FOIA requirements.
Improving public access to information remains a matter for partisan jostling, and has little priority at the national level.
Issues of transparency may shift to focus on campaign donations and Super PAC collaboration.
