I miss Aaron a lot, but thank you for treating the incident objectively.

We are a meritocracy in the original sense of the word: those given the most merits make the rules.

No one cares about your stance without what kind of logic you used to arrive at that stance. Please share why you feel this way and I will happily upvote you, even if I disagree with it.

These are emails from a private organization. Leaking info about a candidate ≠ leaking sensitive classified gov't info. If there's classified govt info on the private servers then who is responsible are the officials for not respecting expected limits between their government aparatus and their professional extension service. Now I personally don't think it's practical to expect them to seperate them completely, or that there was much of any wrong doing from hilary's side. She's trying to be effective. She's not excelling at that as an executive as well as she has historicly achieved as a back-door politician. Infosec is lacking. i think that's good though. Keep them dumb. It improves their transparency with us, their electorate. Let's get over it and focus on the issues.

Is it more acceptable for political figures of lesser rank? Why the distinction?

So I see you're a big fan of Richard Nixon.