2016 Postmortem

that her system administrator would get a warning for not having kept up with the latest microsoft security updates.

in a sane world, the idea that she should be prosecuted or even politically faulted for what she did would be completely laughable.

having worked in a secure environment, i can guarantee you that if hillary belongs in jail for what she did, so would at least half of all people who ever held security clearance. the biggest culprit is not following the "need to know" part. it's not enough to have the right clearance level, you also have to have a "need to know". but a lot of people with clearances get frustrated that they can't talk about things outside work, so they take liberties at work with colleagues they know have the appropriate clearances, though not the "need to know".

this sort of thing gets a warning at worse (although repeated warnings can have further consequences).

hillary didn't even do that.

the whole thing was absolutely ridiculous if you took it at face value. of course, that's just the thing, her inquisitors knew it was all a big joke. the point was simply to smear her and pretend that what she did was somehow far more nefarious than it actually was.

and given the further joke that is our media, it worked.