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Just to be clear, in this case "getting shit done" meant recklessly creating a massive security breach at the highest levels of the government.

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During a period of time when government insiders were leaking damaging classified information on the internet.

I can see how she would consider her actions to be the lesser to two evils, at least she could trust her people.

That's the equivalent of someone who sees a bunch of broken windows in the neighborhood and therefore figures it's okay to toss a beer bottle out the window of their car.

Mind you, I could see that being her thought process, it's very human. But it is hardly a ringing endorsement of her behavior and principles, to say the least.

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