[revelation]

Well yes, if we are discussing why it's illegal to use personal email for this kind of communication, you can't make the assumption that it's legal to use the personal email for hiding stuff and arrive at the conclusion there is no scandal.

That's circular logic.

[danielweber]

This "it could have been worse" is weird. The point of requirements to use official channels is two-fold:

1. It maintains an archive that can be used for accountability.

2. Anyone communicating with not-that-account can potentially flip to the watchdogs, making it harder to use unofficial communications.

I'm not so naive to think that those unofficial communications don't happen. I expect that most campaigns have used them for dirty laundry. It doesn't mean we get rid of the channels we can see.