[Grampa Dave]

Many of those memos would have been Top Secret.

Possession of top secret memos in a non secure area, as well as storing/transmitting them as emails on a non secure server would be criminal acts.

[ASA Vet]

So what Dave, those laws only apply to us, not to the nobility.

Remember when LBJ exposed a TS Codeword on world wide TV. All that happened was we peons had to change codewords. Only a few million dollars wasted.

[iontheball]

Let me tell you a little short story about how major this criminal act is. Over my many years in government I may have received two citations for violating a national security rule. Both consisted of leaving a Red Cover file ‘unattended’ on my personal office desk when I left to attend a couple hour meeting. Internal Security would periodically check offices for unattended classified material. Such indiscretion was a violation because if I left the office, even momentarily, I was to secure the document in my office safe. This was true even though the entire building was secured and all employees had building passes. I never lost my job or position over it, but I had to attend a security re-briefing on the proper handling of classified information.

One other true story that comes to mind. I personally knew a high ranking regional official in my agency who left his briefcase in the men's room at the Dallas International airport. The case had international highly classified info in it. A subsequent investigation determined that almost immediately he must have realized what he had done, went back in the restroom and the case was gone. He then panicked, went into one of the stalls and blew his brains out with his service weapon. The investigation determined that someone had found the case and turned it in to airport security. None of the material in the case appeared to have been disturbed. Losing/mishandling classified info is serious business.

[Darksheare]

Also, someone remind us exactly how many minutes of missing audio was sufficient for them to begin impeachment against Nixon, then contrast that against Hillary and Lois Lerner’s missing emails...