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In reply to the discussion: More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted [View all]So your bar for whether the conduct of a public official is acceptable or not is if it constitutes criminal behavior?
Whether crimes were committed or not is irrelevant to me on this subject - the whole situation is just bizarre and certainly represented either, or all of the above, extreme recklessness, arrogance, or a deeply inappropriate sense of personal ownership of information she held in the public trust.
There's no need to speculate - it happened.
And as for real problems - I'm an IT director, and this kind of thing constitutes the sort of 'real problem' that really stands out to me. From an IT security perspective, well, it's really, really hard to even imagine an official or company officer with access to vast amounts of sensitive information doing what was done there. It just doesn't make any sense without highly questionable motives.
And this is not fun. Not in the slightest. It's ugly. But I believe that democratic forms of government fail when citizens sacrifice what would be their normal ethical perspectives regarding personal conduct in order to stomach voting for people who have engaged in conduct that violates their ethical standards.
Go far enough down that road, and we get the government we deserve...