You&#x27;re right, politicians are held to a different standard-- a much more strict one.  Clinton had her own private email server set up.  I&#x27;m sure that many people on this forum can back me up on this one, it&#x27;s quite legal to set up an SMTP host on your own domain.<p>The issue is that she was apparently told to use the .gov email address provided to her by her work, and she did this instead.<p>People have accused her of doing this for various reasons, but personally I don&#x27;t believe there&#x27;s evidence to show that she did this for any other reason than wanting to stand out and look special by sending mail from hillary@clintonemail.com, and so that she could use her own BlackBerry.