2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email Scandal for Non-Techy People [View all]global1
(25,251 posts)We hear all the time on the news and read in the newspapers of people having their computers hacked and their identities stolen. We hear of major corporations that have been hacked and their customers data stolen. Recently I read about a hospital that was hacked and its data being held for ransom.
As a computer and e-mail user - I'm freaked about my computer being hacked and my identity stolen. I still don't do any banking or paying of any bills by internet because I don't trust it. I think I'm using good judgement here. I bought into the meme that once one puts something in an e-mail - it's out there somewhere for all to see it and access it - if one really tried hard enough.
That brings me to wondering what the hell was Hillary thinking? What kind of judgement was being employed by her to set up her own server and bypass the government system and turn up her nose to the NSA, CIA and other government agencies?
I mean - she was the Secretary of State and she was dealing with more highly sensitive information then just paying a bill or doing banking over the internet like me. She was dealing with foreign governments and people's lives.
Even if it is determined that very few e-mails were actually classified - the content of the e-mails going back and forth between her and her people had to be sensitive and have some value to hackers. Hackers that deal with foreign governments and terrorists. When you think of it on these terms - Hillary was putting us all at risk here.
Your non-techy look at this - what I call a major scandal - has caused me to think about it in these terms - as a person that iw worried about having my identity stolen.
One really has to question Hillary's judgement here. What she did cannot be glossed over and swept under a rug. And I question if I want a person that has such poor judgement being the leader of my country.