2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton's Private Server... Laugh it off. Nothing to see here... move along please! [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)So far, this particular case appears to be a case of terrible reporting.
But we should be concerned that there may be some sort of breach on that server. It's actually really easy to do.
Everything Manning leaked is still classified. Someone with a security clearance has to treat it all as classified, even though the information is basically public.
So someone without a clearance reads a story about something Manning leaked, and sends Clinton an email mentioning the classified information. That's a security breach. She had a clearance, and stored classified information in an unclassified environment.
While such a scenario can't be prosecuted, getting down into the gory details about the regulations surrounding classified information is not good in a campaign.
Btw, if you want to make trouble for any DUers who have security clearances, post leaked classified documents directly on DU without a warning. If you don't want to get them in trouble, link to the document instead.