Several present and former members of the U.S. intelligence community said Hillary Clinton's private, home-based email server was a major security flaw and America, going forward, ought to assume enemies of the state all had access to it.
"The name Clinton right on the email handle meant this was not a difficult find," said John Schindler, a former National Security Agency counterintelligence officer, Investors Business Daily reported. "We should assume Russians, Chinese and others were seeing this."
Advertisement - story continues below
Schindler also said the former secretary of state was most irresponsible in running her official government email account off the grid, in her New York home.
TRENDING: 29-year-old professor suddenly drops dead while playing basketball on campus
"By using her own private server with email – which we now know was wholly unencrypted for the first three months of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state – she left this easily interceptable by any decent 21st century SIGINT service," he said.
SIGINT is the acronym for signals intelligence, or electronic spying.
Advertisement - story continues below
Schindler's not alone in his assessment.
"[Clinton] may have deleted 30,000 emails before turning her files over to the State Department, but that doesn't mean that the Russians and the Chinese don't have them," said Michelle Van cleave, a former U.S. national counterintelligence executive, Investor's Business Daily reported.
Other intelligence officials are calling on the FBI to seize Clinton's server and process it through a forensic analysis to determine the extent of any security breaches.
Clinton registered her domain name, clintonmail.com, through Network Solutions.
