A friend who works for the FBI flagged this long ago as the origin story for Clinton's "but her emails!" woes. It's distinctly possible that if the NSA had just secured her Blackberry, there would never have been a president Trump. Funny how small things spiral out.
You might draw many possible lessons from this story, though. One is the lesson you draw, which is that the NSA should have secured her damn Blackberry. The second is that this was really about egos, and Clinton couldn't accept that she was less important, and deserved a less important phone, than Obama, so she went ahead anyway. A third is that if you want to be president someday, you can't cut corners, and you need to use whatever clunky tech the government gives you -- so that one day, you can be the boss, summon the head of the NSA into your office, and humiliate and then fire him in front of his peers. But Clinton didn't have that kind of patience: she had emails to send.
You might draw many possible lessons from this story, though. One is the lesson you draw, which is that the NSA should have secured her damn Blackberry. The second is that this was really about egos, and Clinton couldn't accept that she was less important, and deserved a less important phone, than Obama, so she went ahead anyway. A third is that if you want to be president someday, you can't cut corners, and you need to use whatever clunky tech the government gives you -- so that one day, you can be the boss, summon the head of the NSA into your office, and humiliate and then fire him in front of his peers. But Clinton didn't have that kind of patience: she had emails to send.