Bottom line. A nakedly political act (private e-mail server) results in a national security nightmare. Supposedly secret communications within the administration or with people from other nations were better known to hostile governments than to the American people and their representatives.
Just think. Since she was an accepted part of the administration, e-mails supposedly from her would be trusted by others. Once you hacked the server, it wouldn't be hard to spoof e-mails from her to spread malware into government systems and networks.
Where, on a scale of one to 10, would any sitting secretary of state rank as a target of foreign spies? "10, of course," said Van Cleave. "That being the case, all of her e-mails would have been potentially of interest to any number of foreign parties."
Just think. Since she was an accepted part of the administration, e-mails supposedly from her would be trusted by others. Once you hacked the server, it wouldn't be hard to spoof e-mails from her to spread malware into government systems and networks.
"From a counterintelligence perspective, (for) anyone with any responsibility for intelligence, counterintelligence and security, this thing is a monumental disaster," the longtime senior intelligence officer said.
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