&gt; Isn&#x27;t this the least bit fishy? To say that politicians are held to a different standard than the average citizen is in full effect here. Its a HUGE cover up. How is she not in jail yet?<p>I think that&#x27;s a bit of a misreading of the situation.  First, Clinton was allowed to use a non-state.gov email address as Sec of State.  Colin Powell did exactly that and ran into the same problem of some unclassified emails being classified after the fact.<p>Secondly, the Sec. of State has original classifying authority so there are things she can do with respect to classifications that a normal person with a clearance cannot.<p>Third, State Dept emails sent over the open internet are not meant to be classified, there are other secure networks for that.  This is not a case where someone was intentionally handling classified material on a system it should not be handled on.<p>Lastly, deleting emails does not mean a crime was committed.  People delete emails all the time, people fail to archive their emails all the time.  Now, with the State Dept there is an archiving requirement with NARA for official email.  But would the aide&#x27;s emails fall under that?  Probably not.<p>Now if there were criminal charges pending or a subpoena and Pagliano destroyed emails to get around that, it would be a different story.  But to date, that doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case.<p>Clinton showed poor judgement in setting up her own email server simply because she of all people should know there is a target on her back and that the use of a personal email server might look suspicious.  But as of yet there hasn&#x27;t been any clear evidence of criminal wrongdoing.  That could still change but I think the likelihood of a smoking gun has gone down considerably.