Mukasey’s judgment

From Scott Johnson at Powerline Blog:

Former federal judge and Attorney General Michael Mukasey provides a lucid tutorial in the law applicable to Hillary Clinton’s use of her home-based email/server for official business. Mr. Mukasey’s tutorial comes in the form of the Wall Street Journal column “Clinton defies the law and common sense” Drawing both on his expertise and his experience, he concludes:

When I attended my first briefing in a secure facility, and brought a pad to take notes, my chief of staff leaned over and wrote in bold capital letters at the top of the first page, “TS/SCI,” meaning Top Secret, Secure Compartmentalized Information—which is to say, information that may be looked at only in what is known as a SCIF, a Secure, Compartmentalized Information Facility. My office was considered a SCIF; my apartment was not.

The point he was making by doing that—and this is just the point that seems to have eluded the former secretary of state—is one of common sense: Once you assume a public office, your communications about anything having to do with your job are not your personal business or property. They are the public’s business and the public’s property, and are to be treated as no different from communications of like sensitivity.

That something so obvious could have eluded Mrs. Clinton raises questions about her suitability both for the office she held and for the office she seeks.

A reasonable reader might disagree with Mr. Mukasey that what we know now only “raises questions about” Hillary Clinton/s suitability for higher office, but Mukasey’s tact adds to the power of his conclusion. Whole thing accessible here.

Mukasey is not a partisan and his comments about the nature of the information casually handled by Clinton simply explains how regular people, like the Attorney General, handle sensitive information.

But the rules don't seem to apply to her, do they?