2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary did nothing wrong with the emails - it is a republican smear campaign [View all]beedle
(1,235 posts)especially those who work for a business.
If you set up an email server in your basement, without the permission or knowledge of your company, and started using it for company business, and used it to contact people that your bosses explicitly told you not to do business with ... what do you think would happen to you? Would they fire you, or would they praise you and offer you the CEO position?
in any business I am aware of, the simple fact that you set up an email server in your basement and conducted business on it would be "the crime" ... there wouldn't be any need to go though the emails before being fired (it would still happen to evaluate the extent of the damage, but the damage has already taken place.)
Yes Hillary did do something WRONG .. she set up the email server ... the consequences for anyone else would be a severe penalty .. only in the world of Washington politics would this kind of blatant disregard for the rules not automatically disqualify you from continuing on in the 'business', let alone being promoted to the highest position in the 'company'.