When she applied for the job she had to go through some fairly serious hoops to get qualified. some of those hoops required serious looking people to interview not only most of us in her family but her friends and their families as well. One of the severe looking interviewers sported a badge and a gun and worked for one of those alphabet agencies whose name starts with "F" and ends with "I". After the Hillary story broke on the Private Email server there was much joking around her work until they had a mandatory meeting on the subject of handling sensitive materials (the section where she works routinely handles docs that are stamped with monikers like top secret etc.)
They went through the entire book on how to handle these docs again at this meeting (took hours) and then had a Q&A at the end. Someone asked about the Hillary private server and what would happen if someone working here had done the same.
The bosses and the rep from the DOE who was at the meeting explained the minimum results would be loss of job and most likely a life time ban from working in a position to handle such docs ever again.
If it was found that any of the docs had been nabbed by anyone outside the system prosecution and imprisonment was the most likely outcome. They finished the event by reminding everyone this was no joke.
But it was a joke. Just not a funny one.
One afternoon in the late 50s early 60s I was home alone and I guy with a badge (don't remember which, probably FBI) came to our door and asked to talk to my parents. Told him they weren't home.
He told me a (unnamed) neighbor was applying for a government job and he had some questions. He just asked if I had seen or heard of any unusual behavior. I said no, and he left and went to the next house. I don't remember if he came back later to talk to my parents. Scared the crap out of me.
Many thanks for the info; what your wife described about that training is consistent with what I’ve seen also.