That's not what happened. What they said is that it was definitely a violation, there did not appear to be a chargeable crime.

People like our current President. And former president. And former CIA director.

It seems like lots of high level officials are being irresponsible in handling condfidential information.

Either the rules are counter-intuitive, or difficult to follow, or officials are highly incentivized not to follow them.

But for some reason, lots of them aren't.

It makes public accountability very difficult.

But the emails weren't classified. That was part of the problem, but that does stop it being a crime.

Yeah agreed. I'm not sure any civilian politician would really be charged for that type of violation though. Would've been nice if the DNC apparatus didn't downplay as if it didn't matter at all though: it does!

Note that this is actually quite different from the Mar-a-Lago case where Trump was asked to return documents, he said he did, then said he didn't have them, then asked people "what if we just said we didn't have them", then he was asked to return them again, and he said he didn't know anything about it.

> Would've been nice if the DNC apparatus didn't downplay as if it didn't matter at all though: it does

How exactly are you supposed to respond to the republican weaponization of the investigatory process for partisan political gain?

In the grand scheme of things, it really actually was not a "big deal".

Meanwhile, everything DOGE did was *orders of magnitude* worse. Republicans? Not a peep.

> ... "the added cherry from the 'security' community saying that hosting your own email server for confidental emails is no big deal."

Literally nobody (sane) in the security community would ever say that. On the contrary, they'll tell you that running your own email server for any reason is a whole can of worms that nobody wants to mess with, and if you give them twenty minutes of your time to listen intently, they'll list you a whole laundry-list of reasons why.

Note how he switched from the word "classified" to "confidential". A bit of a different meaning there.

DAWG.