I work at the State Dept. Let's talk email.

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282. This OP is a year old. Fascinating wrong-headed and uninformed arguments defending her. Still are.

Funny how the DU kick system makes old posts pop up like a ruin in a low tide. This was when some people were still saying it was all just a big mistake brought on by Hillary's inability to manage technology. That was before the revelations that there were 2,000 plus emails containing classified information on her private uncertified server, 104 of which she had sent herself, and 22 that contained Top Secret/Special Access Program material that had been downloaded from classified systems, stripped of their classification headers, and sent "unsecure." That was before it was known that she had been warned not to continue using her off the shelf Blackberry by the NSA because of its security vulnerabilities. So, she proceeded to immediately hook up an unsecure private email system connected with the very same hand-held device.

We heard a year ago, and still hear from her defenders that these emails were "innocuous". No harm done. But, as we have learned in recent months, some of these classified materials were fresh NSA intercepts that had been taken off a classified system just hours earlier. When she received them from Sid Blumenthal her response was, "keep 'em coming." Too bad her signed security oath invoked a federal statute, 18 USC Sec. 793, (e) and (f) that states it's a felony to fail to report such breaches of classified materials, as well as a felony to mishandle or expose classified materials so that they are vulnerable. That law, which is referenced twice in her security oath, does not require proof of intent to harm the national security or even any actual harm be done. The mishandling of classified materials or failure to report it when you see it is enough to earn a 10 year all expenses paid vacation in Club Fed.

Oops, her Luddite ways are still the main-line excuse being offered. Tell it to FBI Director Comey. We will see soon what he thinks of that defense.