In addition to the server, Hilary "abandoned secure line to use home phone"

[The Grand Nudger]

To some degree yes, and to some degree no. I'm sure there are rules saying that unsecured lines are OK in some circumstances, but do we know that this was one of those circumstances?

Do we know -anything- about it?  No.  You consistently frame the questions to imply guilt, and even go so far as to say you would consider her guilty -of something-  if she was found not to have done anything illegal.

My initial thoughts are that this was probably not allowed. Clinton would have chosen to use an unsecured line immediately if given the opportunity. The fact that they tried to use a secure line for an hour suggests to me that they were supposed to use a secure line. Honestly, if this were a call that did not need to happen securely, I can't see why they would try to do it securely for an hour before giving up.

-and since we don;t know whether or not the subsequent call ever occurred....or what was spoken about if it did, or whether procedure was followed in response to the tech failure in that call that may have never taken place........

It's the attitude that really annoys me. Security is important, nowadays more than ever.

The attitude that you've manufactured, whole cloth..out of very literally nothing? Even the story we -do- have reports that she suggested steps be taken to protect sensitive data. Here's a "for all we know" for ya. An aide leans in and says, "I'm sorry, Mrs Clinton, we can't do that".

I'm not much of a fan of Hillary either, but this is an election cycle, and this was dug up by a group trying to make sure she wouldn't win. It is -very- common to try and bury a candidate in controversy. The truth of the accusations are almost entirely immaterial. She hasn't been indicted, and even if indicted, she will need to be convicted...otherwise all of this is hot air.