What is this with Democrats with a liberal leaning not using the official department communications? Are they afraid that if they leave office, for any reason, the contents of their official files will somehow become a way of feeding their opposition?
And why would they ever think their personal network server is somehow more secure than the government servers? Do they know something the rest of us don’t?
There was once a joke about the security classification system - that the classification was so high, only the enemy would ever have opportunity to read it...
Basically, Democrats - at least the crop we have at present - believe that any opposition to their will is immoral and therefore should be illegal.
If they can make illegal by legislative action, they will. If they cannot make it explicitly illegal, they will simply refuse to follow the law, because (see above) anything that opposes them or even inconveniences them is immoral.
Typically, friends in the executive branch or in the judicial branch will look the other way whilst they do this, and everything comes out fine.
It's kind of like what happened when a brand-new YMCA branch opened in our town. One of the first things they did was to try to put out of business every competing charity in about a six-mile radius.
They did this with the greatest confidence. Their attitude was "what you did was fine, but you're not needed any more."
I believe their reasoning goes as follows: the charity "pie" is only so big, there's only so much charity work and charity funding available in a region.
The YMCA believes that - because it is an arm of the United Way - it is ipso facto the most efficient and effective charity imaginable. Therefore, any other charities are (by definition) less efficient, and - following from that - represent a misuse of charitable resources simply as a result of their existence.
For this reason, the YMCA is justified in putting them out of business by any means necessary, for the greater good.
I believe the Democrats think just like this about their own purposes and goals when compared with those of anyone else, particularly their opposition.
I also believe they would put we the opposition in cattle cars instantly if they could, and they would feel completely justified in doing so. Just as they do with Planned Butchery.