Uh...no.
It's like a candy jar was sitting out with a sign saying 'Free- take one please'. Johnny helped himself to one candy each day he stopped by. A week later, Jimmy saw the same sign and had one free candy, too, each day of the week.
A week later, the same candy jar now has a sign that says 'Candy - 50 cents each'.
Your position is that both Johnny and Jimmy are thieves, because they 'stole candy' that now costs 50 cents. The reality is that the cost of the candy was labeled differently at the time they took it.
And, for another poster - it's not about the 'type of information' on servers being classified - it's either listed as classified and identified as such or it's not. It can be 'sensitive' information, but that's different from formally classified intel.
Just like the 'type' of candy might be free or typically cost 50 cents. It's either labeled/identified as free or costing 50 cents or it's not. I'm reserving judgments on that for formal investigators to make decisions on whether the information was improperly handled, not pundits.
So below Johnny took 4 pieces of candy when the sign said "1".
(So it seems she didn’t break a rule simply by using a personal email to conduct business. Rather, by using personal emails
exclusively, she skirted the rules governing federal records management, Cox said.)
So below Jimmy took the whole damn jar instead of "1".
(It would have been a violation of the NARA's rules in the
Code of Federal Regulations for Clinton to use personal email exclusively, Metcalfe said. The code requires federal agencies to make and preserve records that duly document agency activity, so that they are readily available when needed -- such as for FOIA requests or congressional inquiries. Using personal email exclusively is contrary to proper record preservation.
"Anyone at NARA would have said you can’t use a personal email account for all of your official business," said Metcalfe, who held his position in part during former President Bill Clinton’s administration.)
Below had Johnny or Jimmy done this (abided by the sign) - no controversy.
(Had Clinton used a @state.gov email address, every email sent and received would have been archived in the State Department system. Clinton, who served from 2009 to 2013, has argued that her emails were archived in the system because she was in the habit of sending them to other government employees with .gov email addresses.)
Add in the fact that Johnny decided to eat all the candy, then throw the jar away and leave only the lid behind... you have wiping of the mail server and the denial of any wrong doing... until caught on the office camera with pieces of candy all around him as he is sleeping at his desk from sugar dose.
