An important principle to bear in mind for our consideration of this story is fuck everything.

For while the exposure of Indiana governmental business to mundane hacker intrusion is no less odious than when it happened with Hillary's State Department, it's not like Pence was seriously considering military action against Ohio or anything.

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This is a ridiculous paragraph:

Cybersecurity experts say Pence's emails were likely just as insecure as Clinton's. While there has been speculation about....

This is journalism?

This is journalism?

Crid at March 4, 2017 2:22 AM

I'm afraid so. And it's going to get worse.

Out of curiosity was Pence breaking the law when he did this? Was this email account an attempt to avoid government accountability rules?

If not then there is no double standard.

Out of curiosity was Pence breaking the law when he did this? Was this email account an attempt to avoid government accountability rules? ~ Ben at March 4, 2017 6:57 AM

No, Pence was breaking no laws, nor any written department rules. In addition, he was using a commercially available host with generally accepted security protocols in place, not a home-brew server in his basement.

Not to mention that he had a third party review his e-mails to determine which ones should be archived with the Indiana government, not his own lawyers and aides.

Finally, when his e-mails were turned over to be archived with the government, the format was an easily-searchable electronic format, not 55,000 printed pages intended to make a search of them difficult if not impossible.

And when evidence arose that his e-mail host had been hacked, Pence immediately switched to a government host with even higher security protocols.

Cybersecurity experts say Pence's emails were likely just as insecure as Clinton's.

And Pence, as governor of a Middle American state, had every reason to guard his e-mails against international hacking?

That his were "likely" as insecure as Clinton's is irrelevant nonsense. She was Secretary of State for chrissakes. He was the governor of a relatively small state with an almost minuscule national, much less international, footprint.

This isn't an apples-to-oranges comparison. The two are not even in the same genus. It's apples-to-mice.

This is a desperate attempt to whitewash Clinton's transgressions by saying, "Look, they did it too!" Clinton failed in her responsibility; she deliberately tried to avoid any oversight by the tax-paying public or its representatives into how she did her taxpayer-financed job or ran her taxpayer-financed department. While she may have been above board and honest in doing that job, her actions imply otherwise.

The big difference is Pence complied with the rules, Clinton did not. And Pence took precautionary steps when the rules proved inadequate to protecting his communications.

Pence's intransigence may have not been illegal, but it was immoral. Just another indication of the moral degeneracy seemingly prevalent throughout the political class.

Just another talking point for the Democrat attempt to overthrow the Trump administration. Thanks, Pence!

Dumbass.

I doubt it was even immoral Mpetrie98. Collin Powell used a commercial email address when he was secretary of state. This was not an issue because the government was so far behind it didn't have a government managed option at the time. Nor were there rules on how such things should be done. Powell was involved in bringing the government into the current decade and help put better practices in place. What Hillary did is a completely different thing as Conan detailed.

As for giving the Democrats another talking point, they would just pickup or makeup something else. Big whoop.