2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Is Hillary staying in pending indictment [View all]"use of a personal e-mail server (a universal practice by high-ranking gov't officials)"
This is absolutely and completely false.
Other high level officials have had personal email accounts, which they used for personal communication and did not mix official government email (I believe Powell had an AOL account for personal).
Hillary is the first and only high level official known to have a personal email server (a physical piece of hardware that houses the email client and stores all email traffic) located literally in her house. If this had been used for her personal account for personal communication only, there would not be an issue, but she ran ALL of her personal, Clinton Foundation AND official government SoS communication with lots of confidential, secret and top secret information through the same server under the same email account. This server had no government security, much less oversight, whatsoever. A clear violation of multiple security laws.