Nearly everyone listening to these assurances came away with the
impression that a person or team of people went through those 60,000+
emails and sorted them into two categories: work or personal. On The Daily Show,
Jon Stewart mocked the notion that sorting through tens of thousands of
emails was more "convenient" than maintaining both work and personal
email accounts. Most criticism of the approach focused on the fact that
Hillary Clinton confidantes, rather than neutral arbiters, were making
the judgment calls about these 60,000+ emails.
But it turns out that no one was "going through" each email to sort
work from personal correspondence or to error on the side of disclosure
when the line was blurry.
-- Conor Friedersdorf, "Hillary Clinton's Questionable Process for sorting Work Emails," (The Atlantic).