Someone remind me, before Clinton got caught with her pants on fire claiming she only ever used one device, what was her go to justification back then? I think the word starts with "con ..."
Hillary didn't claim that she only ever used one device. She claimed she wanted to carry just one device but still receive personal email. Over time, she went through multiple devices, but my understanding is that the FBI report indicated she did not use more than one device at a time.
And what was it Abedin said after her initial, "Golly, I don't have any idea how all those State Department emails ended up on my wacky husband's laptop"? Something about not knowing how to operate her work printer so she just sent everything to her Yahoo account even after she was warned it may have been hacked.
The vast majority of classified/sensitive information was typically never sent through email in the first place. Clinton's top aides compiled paper-copy reports that Clinton read. And they discussed most details in person.
The fact that independent analysis by the FBI indicated only about 50 classified emails or so out of about 30,000 is strong evidence that Hillary and her aides used Hillary's private emails server for non-classified email. The extremely small proportion of emails that independent analysis interpreted as classified strongly indicates that Hillary and her aides took the non-classification-use nature of her server seriously. Remember, these are top folks at the State Department. They know a thing or two about classification. Given the subjective nature of classification, the known problem of over classification, the fact that top State Department officials are likely some of our nation's top experts in classification, and the fact that independent analysis by the FBI interpreted about 0.001% of Hillary's emails as being classified, I'm not sure how an honest assessment could conclude anything other than that these FBI-interpreted emails were probably simply not interpreted as classified by Hillary's aides, which strongly indicates they did not contain anything very sensitive at all.
With that view, please reconsider Abedin's forwarding of non-classified emails from a private server that was not cleared for classified information to a personal email account. I think if you honestly consider all the information, this is a yawn at best.
And if it still bugs you, fine. But you better drag Colin Powell's ass way further into this mess, as he described using a secret, personal address for official use, and did not CC any State Department addresses to intentionally prevent his emails from being captured by the State Department.
But, yeah, the idea that Abedin or her boss might be willing to bend the rules on handling sensitive information for the sake of "convenience," that's just crazy talk.
Could be. But I don't rely on "could be." I rely on evidence. And so should you. And the evidence here strongly indicates that Hillary and her aides took the non-classified nature of Hillary's private server seriously.
As someone who knows very little about computer tech, it's amazing to me to realize that I've probably been exercising more care with our relatively unimportant work information than some of the people at the highest levels of government handle our nation's secrets. But I guess the rules are just different for them.
Or your understanding is just incorrect.
