Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton suggested that she did not put a lot of thought into her e-mail system while Secretary of State. Asked about this claim on Face the Nation, Carly Fiorina struck a skeptical tone:
I don’t think it’s plausible for her to say, ‘Oh, I wasn’t paying any attention.’ She clearly was paying attention.
Fiorina noted that one does not just fall into such an arrangement:
It takes a lot of work to install a private server system in your basement. It takes a lot of work to make sure that you are having the right connections to conduct both personal and professional business over that system.
Fiorina also pointed out that Clinton had hired a professional to set up the system:
We know, for example, that she hired into the State Department a political operative who had done IT work on her campaign and for her PAC. That IT operative was paid $5,000, not by taxpayers, but by Mrs. Clinton herself to do IT work on that basement server. That actually takes a lot of work.