Classified networks are totally separate from non-classified networks. You can’t email between the two without removing data with say a thumb drive and copying to a non-classified system. To do that is illegal and intentional, it can’t accidently happen.
State Department knows that, FBI knows that, DOJ knows that and anybody with a security clearance knows that.
These headlines are for the uninformed public.
My concern is that now the server is in the hands of the DOJ as part of an investigation, any info related to them are not subject to FOIA nor congressional subpoenas.
What’s more, in the wake of the Bradley Manning scandal, the government doubled down to prevent the illegal download or transfer of classified material. I got out of the business back in 2008—before anyone had ever heard of Manning or Edward Snowden. But at the intel center where I worked, it was impossible to find a workstation that allowed analysts to download/transfer files by thumb drive or similar device. If you wanted to move a file from SIPRNET (Secret) to JWICS (TS/SCI), it had to be done by an administrator, on a machine that permitted the upload/download of classified information.
If there were actual satellite images in her e-mails (doubtful), then someone was actually moving documents between systems (an obvious crime). More likely, the information was probably paraphrased from the original intel documents, with enough material to warrant the classification at TS/SCI level.
To borrow a phrase from Webb Hubbell, I wonder if Huma or Cheryl Mills will be the first to “roll over” for Hillary.
It is 100.1% impossible to occur by accident, by design.
It requires human intervention and intent.
And it will be traceable in all cases.
This stuff was tracked to the Nth degree.
This was inside espionage.