Here’s something most people don’t realize: We didn’t have the type of system-wide, ultra-high-level, utterly catastrophic breaches of the federal government’s network security before a certain server going up in a certain Secretary of State’s bathroom in early 2009. It’s been astonishing to me over the years how nobody seems to have noted this or the timing. Well, it’s about time we did. We’ll do it here. We’ll have a look at how bad it’s been, but first, let’s recall what started it all.
Secretary Hillary Clinton’s server, which former FBI Director James Comey described as having “less security than Gmail,” resulted in a serious and protracted “scandal [which] revolve[d] around questions about classified information, the preservation of government records and the security of her email communication.”
Any one of those issues, whether the utter recklessness with top-level classified information, the outright theft of our public record, or the insanely dangerous vulnerability of it all to our enemies, would have been enough to banish any normal person to the back of beyond. However, being a (D), especially one named Clinton, has its privileges, as we all know all too well.
Let’s remember a fact too few do: Hillary declined a “.gov” email when she took the job at State. She made an affirmative choice not to have a government email at all.
It’s not simply that she had a .gov email and neglected to forward her State-related personal email to honor her obligations (which is allowed, with specific limitations). Oh no. She made a clear choice to simply not have one.
That’s an order of magnitude worse than simply being derelict. It shows consciousness of intent—frankly, criminal intent—to steal, or allow others to steal, our records. Our records. Her job belonged to us, not her.
So, when James Comey, in that infamous July 2016 press conference said there was “no” criminal intent, he was flat-out lying, and he damned well knew it. And anyone with even a passing familiarity with the above knew it and knows it to this day.
So now that we recall how grievous Hillary’s crimes were, what of hacks of important federal systems? Well, according to a May 2015 CNN story, which opens with a big picture of Mrs. Clinton and mentions her server in the first paragraph, the 2014-2015 State Department hack was the “worst ever.” When even CNN makes the connection between the two, that’s pretty bad.
Hellbound and Down 