Her answer is a distraction at best. Forget about the confidential emails.
The ones that matter are TS/SCI. They matter enough that there is never a reason that someone shouldn’t be in jail for transferring them to an unclass environment. You are read in and read out of these programs. You access the materiel in special rooms that are inaccessible to people not read in. We are talking about materiel that if printed the copies are numbered for accountability. There were something like 20 SCI emails floating about.
Your points are spot-on; I was read in to a number of Special Access Programs during my intel days. One particular program required entry into a special room within the SCIF (Special Compartmentalized Intelligence Facility); once inside, the material could only be viewed on a specialized terminal, and all personnel had to sign-in/sign-out, both on the system and on the access log.
These programs represent the crown jewels of US intelligence. As the retired Naval Flight Officer told HRC last night: you corrupted our national security (and he was being charitable).