Sharing this link in its own thread from another forum.
This writer manages to cogently explain the mess up that is "TEHEMAILZZZOMGLOCKHERUP" *Controversy*
This article is worth the read, in case you haven't come across it yet..
"IT’S THE NEWS STORY that simply has no end. We’ve been assaulted by the Hillary Clinton email “scandal” all election season, but we have shockingly little understanding of what actually happened. Go from one source to the next, and you’ll hear various explanations on what really went down:
She was openly and brazenly sharing vital U.S. secrets over regular-Joe email, secrets that hackers wanted to get their hands on. And maybe did.
She was deleting thousands of emails to avoid being caught doing something.
She was secretly hosting a server so that the public couldn’t pry into her affairs.
She was exerting megalomaniacal control over all her communications in an attempt to protect her fragile public image.
We have so many opinions about the Clinton email controversy, yet few of us, if really questioned about it, could adequately explain what the fuss is truly about. It doesn’t help that Clinton, herself, has been irritatingly evasive about the ordeal, letting anyone and everyone fill in the blanks for the public. And boy have they.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Americans hate Clinton’s email problem. In a recent poll about which issues voters disliked the most about the two remaining candidates, a whopping 80% of respondents said they were bothered by the email scandal, and of that 80%, 58% were really bothered by it. Conclusion? It’s a big problem for Clinton, and every time it comes up in the news cycle, it drags down her polls — enough that it could very well be threatening what should’ve been a slam-dunk win over Donald Trump.
Okay, so what really happened?
The Clinton email issue is a perfect confluence of inertia, bureaucracy, and the limits of technology in government. It was a bad solution to an even worse problem. How do you marry convenience, speed, secrecy, and accountability into one streamlined government communications package?
You can’t.
Let’s start from the beginning.....
Admit It. The Clinton Email Controversy Bothers You, Yet You Don’t Actually Know What the Clinton Email Controversy Is
How a poorly explained mistake continues to threaten the political career of the former Secretary of State.
https://medium.com/the-curious-civil...eda#.qji2ep9uw
So level with me. How many classified emails went through this server?
2093 ..... 2093? Holy $#@!.
Hold on, that’s 2093 out of 62,320.
Still a lot ... Yes, but out of that 2093, only 110 were classified at the time. 0.17%, or just under two-tenths of a percent.
Still kinda bad that it was on a private server.