(02-28-2018 12:09 AM)mrbig Wrote:  Listen, I can't remember why we got off on the Hillary Clinton email tangent. It isn't worth the time to debate. She isn't president and she never will be. She took her shots and fell short. I can think of a million things I care more about at this point that Hillary Clinton. My final comment on the topic is that I am very smart, reasonably tech-savvy, and have no idea what makes a server sufficiently protected so that classified information and documents can be passed through the server without violating and statutes, regulations, or department policies. I doubt most federal employees know or understand this, including Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State. The best practice would be to do whatever the IT folks in your department tell you to do. Can we give it a rest?

No, I'm sorry, that's not good enough. As a former holder of a TS clearance, I find the idea that we are searching to the ends of the earth to find some security violation by the Trump administration, but giving Hillary a pass because she lost the election, to be quite honestly offensive. In reality, we are probably at a point where statutes of limitation would prohibit conviction. But I'm sorry, we the American citizenry deserve a better explanation than the obvious hogwash that we have been fed. If you don't want to discuss further, that's fine, don't.

We're going nuts over an SF86, but turning a blind eye to obvious illegal security violations. I find that very troubling.

You don't get to be Secretary of State without understanding those things. You just don't. Unless you are willfully ignorant, working in an administration that doesn't care. There may not be many federal employees who know that, but among those who hold a TS clearance, I doubt there are many, if any, who don't. I can see the attitude very easily being, we've got enough nukes to destroy civilization 100 times over, so why do we care if a few bits of classified information leak out, my comfort is more important than that. That is an incredibly dangerous, but very believable, situation.