2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: You could see it coming. Hillary should never have run in 2016. [View all]spin
(17,493 posts)handled such information on a daily basis if they feel they would have got off scot-free if classified email had been found to have been received and sent to and from their unauthorized and improperly secured private server, the overwhelming majority would laugh in your face and ask if you were joking.
I held a government security clearance for forty years before I retired. While I never handled the highly classified information Hillary did I worked with classified infomation and documents every day at work. If an employee left a safe unlocked or a classified document out when he was the last employee to leave the secure area I worked in and the guards discovered it the shit would hit the fan. He wouldn't be prosecuted or lose his clearance but he would find out how serious security violations can be. Be aware that access to the secure area while it was unoccupied required first opening a combination padlock then calling the guards desk, having a coded badge to allow you to unlock the door and of course the proper level of clearance for the area. Still an unlocked security cabinet or an classified document left out was considered a really big deal.
Of course maybe at higher levels of our government security is treated as just more chicken shit. That might explain why Hillary wasn't all that concerned about "careless" handling it. Perhaps almost everybody in the State Department was sloppy with classified info. That would explain a lot.
I do know this since I am just one of the "little people" the rule of law definitely applies to me. However I'm beginning to suspect that it doesn't apply equally to certain elites in our nation both Republican and Democrat. Perhaps if the rule of law applied equally to all and especially to those that rule us, we would live in a far better nation.