Slimebeast said:
I don't get this whole affair. Were any of the mails containing classified information hacked and leaked? What would have been the motive for Hilary to leak bits of classified information if that's the main allegation, that she leaked classified information on purpose? Could somebody explain what she would gain from doing that? Or is the allegation that she was just careless?
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No evidence that there was a hack or a leak, though attempts were made. The FBI's technicians have been incredibly thorough, even to bringing back old, deleted email from decommisioned servers and from the servers of recipients. It is possible, though, considering different people without proper security status had access to her personal server. She also sent email through her personal server while in foreign countries, another possible security failure.
The first issue is that she was careless with classified information. Even if the information was actually public knowledge, she still has to treat it as classified if that's an official designation. She also was NOT supposed to use a private server for official email.
The second issue is that her story has changed repeatedly. Either she's been telling lies, she didn't understand what she had done wrong, or (what I think) some measure of both. Either way, it's not good.
There are other issues, as well, though not as serious and many of them are probably wide-spread with government officials. For example, she was supposed to save and turn over ALL email related to work when she left office, which she did not. Colin Powell also improperly used a private email account for government business.
In the end, as far as I know, 110 emails were sent that had some measure of classified materal that was classified at the time. Might have been sensitive information, might have been trivial, but it was still classified.
All of what she did violated department policy. If she were still in office, this would be a much bigger deal.