Clinton explained that the reason she thought her arrangement was okay and that she was confident everything was secure was that “the system we used was set up for President Clinton’s office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.”

There are a few issues created with this defense. One is that she’d have no way of knowing whether there were any security breaches and another is that Secret Service agents physically protecting her house in no way would prevent hackers from remotely infiltrating the system.

Even if everything she said were true, though, there is still this matter of privelige. “Any government employee” wouldn’t happen to have access to a private server that was set up for a former U.S. president and guarded by the Secret Service…

This raises another point. Even if it were the case that most of the emails were sent to other government employees — and we can only go on Clinton’s word — her entire defense is premised on the assumption that everybody else in government dutifully followed rules that she disregarded because she found them inconvenient. If all government employees followed her lead and used their own private emails, then those emails she sent would not, in fact, have been preserved.