The fact that she went to so much effort in the beginning belies the excuse that her home server was just ‘convenient’. She either knew she was taking big risks, or she’s too stupid to be president. If she knew she was taking risks and still went to extraordinary lengths to avoid using government mail services, you really have to step back and ask why.
The most charitable explanation is that she thought Republicans would go on endless FOIA expeditions, and she wasn’t about to let them get away with it. The least charitable explanation is that she was avoiding FOIA because she was up to something shady, possibly involving the Clinton Foundation.
The investigation into this supposedly involves 147 FBI agents. It doesn’t take that many agents just to go through the E-mails, so I am sure they have agents following up chains of information, trying to find out where the classified info came from, who else might know about it, etc. If it’s true that SAP information was found on her hard drive with passages word-for-word from the original documents, then someone committed a felony transcribing it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if multiple indictments come out of this, including people who we don’t even know about yet. Whether Hillary will be one of them is an open question.
Hillary seems to me to be very Nixonian in disposition. Nixon was smart and pretty effective, but his undoing was his personal paranoia and secretive disposition, coupled with a ‘rules don’t apply to me when I am right’ attitude.