2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It kills me to come to a gathering place for democrats [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Because state.gov email is also not rated for anything classified.
The exact same security issues would have existed using the state.gov email as a private email server. Not secure for classified mail is not secure for classified mail.
You have to use the Siprnet email system to send information up to secret and JWICS for top secret.
Someone accidentally sending classified or secret or top secret level information to your state.gov email is exactly the same security issue as if it was sent to a private email server or Gmail for that matter.
I had a debate on this very issue on Sirius radio vs a former CIA agent and he was forced to acknowledge that I was right.
Unfortunately you and many other people bought into the nonsense Republicans and other folks with an anti-Hillary agenda fed you. This was all silly manufactured outrage. Errors like this with sending emails to non rated email systems happen all the time. It's only an issue this time because some folks wanted to manufacure an issue against Hillary.