“Could somebody summarize this e-mail fiasco: why was she doing it? what was it that Clinton was trying to get away with here?”
She was trying to evade the Freedom of Information Act by using private email addresses maintained on private email servers kept in her bathroom. In the process, she grossly compromised national security, thus compounding her original felony.
The servers weren’t kept in her bathroom, but of her shady ISP.
“She was trying to evade the Freedom of Information Act by using private email addresses maintained on private email servers kept in her bathroom. In the process, she grossly compromised national security, thus compounding her original felony.”
That nails it - thanks. So she could get away with things like, say, selling favors for the Clinton Foundation if she wanted to.