I have two questions about the email controversy

[paulthompson]

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That amplifies the problem. It was bad enough that she got these emails from Blumenthal at all, but the fact that she got through through an unsecure email account makes it worse.

Consider that Blumenthal's email account was hacked by a Romanian named "Guccifer" in March 2013. He got the contents to all of the emails between Clinton and Blumenthal, including the email mentioned above, and posted screenshots on the Internet of some of them. Now, he hacked into Blumenthal's email account (by guessing his password) but he just as easily could have hacked into Clinton's. Many people, including former heads of the CIA, NSA, DIA, Defense Department, etc, have said it's a given that Clinton's emails were intercepted by hostile foreign goverments, since her email security was so bad (much worse than if she'd just been using something like Gmail or Yahoo Mail).

So yeah, it's a complicated scandal and there are interrelated parts. That makes it harder for the general public to understand. But the FBI isn't going to cut her slack just because things are complicated. If you think about most any criminal or financial legal case, it's rare to have one overwhelming "smoking gun" that makes it an open and shut case. Instead, lots of pieces of evidence need to be put together, sometimes thousands of pieces. That's what we have here.