@Blackwater_Park “Can’t Trump just make the same excuse? He delegated the document storage/ onsite necessity to some underling? It’s really the same thing here unless he fesses up to some nefarious intent or knowledge.”
– No, absolutely not.
– Boxes of physical Top Secret documents are a VERY different thing from email data.
– For one thing, government email is encrypted, and requires a physical keycard (and keycard reading hardware, and the right version of the email software) to decrypt it. It’s also programmed so that someone without full clearance could be delegated to move email, without having access to actually read the contents.
– Any guest, worker, or spy with access to Mar-a-Lago could have gone where the boxes are and photographed or taken the documents.
– A spy would not only need Clinton’s keycard and access to her computer, but also her password and possibly be able to pass some biometric test, to access her email contents.
– My memory of what I’ve read suggested it was entirely normal what Clinton delegated, and that the only exposure was due to some mistake made by her legal team.
“Again, can’t help but point out the hypocrisy here. I have no idea why he would want them outside of keeping them as some sort of trophy.”
– Probably to trade to people who want such information.
– It was surely idiotic to retain them, unless he hadn’t got around to figuring out how to make copies and getting that done. Even more idiotic to not return them when requested. But then, Trump clearly is incompetent, so that is consistent.
“There are some nefarious reasons for keeping a private email server, but it’s hard to prove intent. It’s required basic cyber security training for federal employees to understand how to properly use email like this. It’s also in Sarbanes-Oxley training which is required too. Still does not pass any smell test I’d give.”
– I don’t presume to know enough about Clinton or her email situation to speculate about what reasons she might have, or what level of understanding she might have.
– The most likely reason I can imagine is probably a combination of not fully understanding the technical requirements, and perhaps thinking she didn’t need to do anything other than what she was doing, and/or relying on staff of advisers, and/or having brow-beaten staff into letting her do something they shouldn’t have, likely without either of them realizing that they shouldn’t do that.