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

[matt819]

283. That's all fine, but

I started working for the USG when you needed permission to send a fax. I left some years later in the early days of email.

This issue, however, is not about obsolete technology or being a Luddite or having your emails printed out. The fact is that she mishandled classified information. Sure, in my day there was a tendency to classify damn near everything. So, yes, some classified information is probably not all that classified. But rules is rules, because when you're addressing policy matters or sources and methods issues, not paying attention to classification can in fact be very damaging. Had I done that, I would have been fired. Several former USG employees are now serving time for mishandling classified information.

And, think about it. She was the fucking Secretary of State. There were ways to have handled this and still satisfy security concerns. As captain Picard said on Star Trek: the next generation, make it so, number one. That's all it would've taken. Instead, she had some tech guy set up a server in her house. Does that sound like sound judgment to you? Did anyone have the balls to stand up to her and say, Madame Secretary, there may be a better way to do this? Or did she simply surround herself by people who would automatically say yes, Madame Secretary. That's not the kind of President I want.

More than anything, at this point, is that it simply taking the FBI too long to come up with its findings. And I can't help but wonder about the extent to which that is some sort of political game playing.