Comment Re:Clinton followed a Presidential trend... (Score 2) 609
So the defense now is "Bush did bad things, too?" "Hey - Nixon engaged in obstruction of justice, too! We have precedent!" Let's see how that one goes over.
Agreed. And to be fair, apparently the Bush administration at least tried to do the right thing by issuing people a government email account and a secure device on which to use it. Not only that, but considering the Clinton claim that Bill only sent two emails the entire time he was in office, then the Bush administration was the very first to try to figure out how to do email right.
I'm not trying to excuse the Bush administration if staffers failed to do email correctly, but the overall point is this: it's not the 2000s anymore, it's the 2010s. Standards and rules about using government servers are even tighter now than they were then, and government IT is much more experienced at security. And yet we have Hilary not even doing things as well as they were done in the 2000s, violating state department rules, using only a personal email account, putting it on an insecure server, etc.This is not a new technology anymore, and there's no excuse for this kind of rule breaking. Especially not the excuse that "well staffer x or staffer y wasn't perfect a decade ago so it's ok".