Malice has nothing to do with it.
When it comes to classified info, making a stupid mistake is enough to put you in serious trouble.
And Hillary didn’t make a “stupid mistake”. The action was deliberate. Clearly. The malice is harder to determine — but again: malice doesn’t matter.
Petraeus got in trouble because he did it intentionally.
Based on my training it is totally obvious that Hillary Clinton knew she was violating the law and security. As Secretary of State she had access to the most sensitive and confidential information in our government. She knew it was illegal and dangerous to have this information on her server. In fact the VA trains and cautions us about having patient info on a non secure system or personal laptop. Additionally, within the VA there are two communication systems. One is secure and the other is not. If you put patient information on the non secure system, all hell is going to break lose on you butt. It is a no no, you just do not do it
The real question is knowing the government would set up a secure network for her for free, way did she pay for a private non secure network under her control and not the government's control. Think, Clinton Foundation Money Laundering Operation and you go to the top of the class.
The second real question is did not one person in the White House notice that her email address was not a .gov address but a clinton server address?
Obama knew from the beginning. Why did he let it continue. He is as guilty as Hilary.