Couple of issues with this article:
The article confuses personal email with official email.
First: “But personal electronic devices—your cellphone, your Blackberry—can never be brought into a SCIF.”
It’s not just ‘personal electronic devices’. You can’t take even official electronic devices into a SCIF. Doesn’t matter if it’s ‘official’, one issued by the government, you can’t take it in.
Second: “But she did not want to. Ms. Clinton only checked her personal email on her Blackberry: she did not want to sit down at a computer terminal. As a result, NSA informed Secretary Clinton in early 2009 that they could not help her. When Team Clinton kept pressing the point, “we were politely told to shut up and color” by IAD, explained the State security official.”
Ms. Clinton wasn’t checking her personal email, she was checking her ‘official’ email, ie, email sent to her as a part of her official duties. ‘Personal’ email is email that doesn’t deal with official duties. Just because it’s sent to your email address doesn’t make it ‘personal’.
The whole reason Ms. Clinton wanted her personal blackberry was to avoid the federal “official” system. State could have issued her an official blackberry. Ms. Clinton refused because an official blackberry would only connect and download from the state department server. Ms. Clinton wanted a bb that would download from her personal server.
The fact that no one noticed that Ms. Clinton didn’t have an official, state department, email address is itself a crime. IT people should have known. Should have brought this to security.
But, but, but .. She only NEEDED her personal email address to coordinate 30,000 emails relating to her “personal business” - the Clinton Foundation international money tree.
The FBI has known about Hillary’s private sever for close to two years when they interviewed Guccifer in the Romanian prison. I suspect after discovering Blumenthal’s communications to Hillary in the open, the investigation started soon after. That may have also been the beginning of the investigation into Hillary’s corruption in office.