Anything is possible with the Clintons. Let me throw out a more complex theory. Hillary actually knows almost nothing about technology, and is the thrall of handlers and “experts” who carry out her general desires. Some are helpful stooges, others cynical players serving their own interests. Once the private email system was in place, “other opportunities” arose both for Hillary and her satellites.
Hillary’s initial motives:
1) personal secrecy as an end in itself, her lifelong obsession;
2) needed to evade oversight, subpoenas and FOIA requests, to conceal her incompetence, criminal activity, and political/Presidential machinations.
3) needed to get off-the-books “advice” from S. Bumenthal, et al, because she didn’t know squat about foreign policy and being SoS, after Obama had banned S.B. from working for the DoS;
4) to better integrate Clinton Foundation corruption into her SoS activities;
5) to assert her “power” and contempt for others and “the system”, by breaking rules whenever she can get away with it; this was just an opportunity to non-conform.
But Hillary’s situation morphed over time. Possibilities:
1) Opportunities for Foundation corruption arose that involved letting “interested parties” have a look at specific documents.
2) She wanted to “reassure” foreign interests of her/U.S. good intentions by letting them have easy access to intel (taking a cue from FDR, who let the Soviets spy like crazy under the delusion it would reassure Stalin). Or she wanted to give them a heads up, so they could better deflect and influence Obama’s policy.
3) Some of Hillary’s handlers found H’s server very useful for their own nefarious purposes, using the same methods and means they have developed for Hillary’s machinations, including stripping out classified markings, etc. She would have no idea what her staff was doing. This doesn’t let her off the hook. She willfully created the perfect situation for espionage and back door dealing, without having the means to control it.
I am sure others can come up with variants, but my experience in life is that things change and grow out of the opportunities that the start-up creates, and are often hijacked or take off in unanticipated ways. Motives are rarely simple or static.
I am sure others can come up with variants, but my experience in life is that things change and grow out of the opportunities that the start-up creates, and are often hijacked or take off in unanticipated ways. Motives are rarely simple or static.
Yes, I am sure it is all of the above. The Clintons are a criminal enterprise that will not pass up any opportunity to make a buck or increase their power/control/connections. Afterall, we can thank the Clintons for the Loral boost to the Communist China space program.
And don’t forget about all of the humanitarian aid the Clintons brought to Haiti while basically buying the whole country (and its gold mines).
They earn money the old-fashioned way, through theft, bribery, fraud and corruption.