Thanks to Bowfinger for posting the link to the New York Times story, which appears to be just what I expected, deliberate distortion from the Left--as is your post, evidently. The article talks about a small number of emails that were sent to Secretary Powell and Secretary Rice, and is ambiguous at best as to whether any details in those messages were actually Classified at the time they were sent. There is no claim that either Mr. Powell or Ms. Rice ever willfully deviated in any way from State Department IT Security policies, nor that they have ever condoned such actions by anyone else.
For that matter, Ms. Rice has not "weighed in"; she was not available for comment, and her Chief of Staff advised the Times that Ms. Rice "did not use email or have a personal email account while secretary (sic)".
But, thanks to the Gray Lady, any discussions of Madame Secretary Clinton's mail server can now simply end with "Oh, it's OK, Powell and Rice did it too."
"The bad guys probably don't know my email address" is not an acceptable security policy for my personal accounts, so it's not likely you'll persuade me that it should be for a U.S. Secretary of State.
Set up by a "Secret Service man"? If that's true, then he did so intending it would be used only for the personal business of a former First Lady. Not for conducting the official business of a Secretary of State, and he would have no business doing so either.
It might be that you just don't get how IT security works (or, at least, is supposed to work), but I think you probably just don't care. You want someone to become President of the United States, so you'll excuse pretty much anything she does.
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