[mkjessup]

I wouldn’t be surprised if malware permeated the entire State Department communications system, and maybe that of the whole Federal Government.

You raise a powerful question which I haven't seen addressed anywhere yet, and that is the issue of foreign intelligence services and even run of the mill hackers not only breaking IN to Hiliarly's email server (which was connected to the 'official' State Department servers and networks), but infiltrating and infecting those systems with malware, spyware, keyloggers, all of that stuff, and the performance of the State Department IT staff doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[FredZarguna]

Bigger question is: given that State had made numerous requests to NSA to get "special" equipment to Grandma Nixon because of her incompetence, what -- if any -- countermeasures did our signal counterintelligence people perform? If none, that would be a Pearl Harbor sized failure.