The biggest problem with Hillary Clinton’s off-the-books email server isn’t the affront to transparency, but the incalculable national security risk it presented. A newly released email from Clinton’s State Department days shows the prospect of Chinese infiltration was literally a joke to her.

In the below exchange, Clinton and State staffer Nora Toiv discuss Toiv’s own use of unsanctioned, non-governmental email—a personal Gmail account:

Haha! The Chinese! Luckily the threat of Chinese hackers to the U.S. government is strictly in the realm of the hypothetical.

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