2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: UPDATE: Very Bad Development In Hillary's Email Investigation: She Knew It Was A Security Risk [View all]MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)Everybody in government has a non-secure .gov account and if HRC had used that instead of her private server the security issue would still be exactly the same. She had a private server so she could screen her emails before somebody like Judicial Watch got their hands on them. The security issue is separate from that.
The issue of the security violations is still unclear. IF there are hundreds or even thousands of security violations with those messages, there are dozens or hundreds of people on the other end of those emails. We have to ask ourselves, did none of them ever raise a red flag about communicating secrets like that? Did they knowingly communicate secrets like this? All of them? For years? Are they in jeopardy too? It really seems unlikely.
However, I think it's possible that if there were violations it worked like this: Someone was responsible for reviewing her emails, and consolidating or summarizing them and then passing then on to her. She probably got hundreds of emails a day and did not read every one of them. She depended on this person to filter for her. She only would read messages from certain known senders. These forwarded messages would not have necessarily be marked appropriately since they were second-hand summaries. So HRC would not necessarily have known there was secret info in there and even if she thought so she has plausible deniability.
So I don't see an indictment coming, but SOMEONE might be in some trouble. But Petraeus did much worse and only got probation and a fine. So there's that.
PS. Edit to add, I voted for Bernie.