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by ZoF 3638 days ago
>If you believe that previous people in the same position also had private servers and received classified information on them, why do you hold it against her?

The law is the law. It should be held against all of them. This is akin to saying, 'well that robber got away with it in the past, why do you hold it against this gentlemen for stealing?'

>Do you not believe that things are "overly" classified, and are liberally and retroactively labelled as such?

What do this have to do with the mishandling of classified info? If it's classified, it's classified; that it might have been classified erroneously or too liberally has nothing to do with the fact that it is currently classified and should be treated as such.