It is actually a pretty good article and I learned a few things (I have followed this).
The main question that needs to be asked regarding the email scandal is this - would you or I be in prison if we had done what she had done?
The answer is clearly YES.
She placed personal convenience ahead of her obligation to protect our nations secrets. There is no doubt that foreign governments who spend tens of millions of dollars on espionage exploited her private server.
There is no way I’ll ever believe this was a matter of “personal convenience”. That could have been had without a server under her personal control outside the control of authorities.
This was done to evade established law and to enable her to destroy information if the need arose to evade prosecution.
The NSA spends at least that much and the DIA is very well funded.
Other countries spy agencies spend similar amounts.
Hillary Clinton as Sec of State was one if the top 10 espionage targets in the world.
As far as foreign intelligence services, hell yes, they were reading her e-mails before she was. And I have seen a theory that she deliberately set up the server this way in order to allow the MSS and FSB and whoever to hack the server to get the information they'd purchased. That way there is no actual electronic trail showing she actively disseminated the material. Instead, it was like leaving it out in the open for them to come look at.
I know that's still a crime, but it can be sold to the stupid American public that "they never proved I passed the information along." And you know the FSB or MSS will never, ever publicly tell the world they were reading her mail.
“She placed personal convenience ahead of her obligation to protect our nations secrets.”
There is a narrative on this...and you may have fallen for it.
Do you really think convenience was the primary driver? I believe her main goal was to avoid record keeping requirements - makes sending Sandy Burglar to the archives unnecessary in the future.