Yeah, but it's absolutely apples and oranges. Petraeus didn't just break this rule, he broke others too and became a bit of an embarrassment.
With your run-of-the-mill service member, it's more a culture of indoctrination - you train people to never make moves that could be perceived as exfiltrating data so that then if anyone makes them you have better evidence that they're exfiltrating data.
I think that when there are allegations being applied of a double standard, it's important to ask why the double standard is being applied.
In this case, I think it's pretty fair to assume that a Secretary of State might well have a good reason for a double standard to be applied. It could be that a staffer gave bad advice, or that she'd received advice from security people.
Certainly I could believe that she'd be better able to vet her people than the state department.
This seems to be a bit of a political crushing, though.
With your run-of-the-mill service member, it's more a culture of indoctrination - you train people to never make moves that could be perceived as exfiltrating data so that then if anyone makes them you have better evidence that they're exfiltrating data.
I think that when there are allegations being applied of a double standard, it's important to ask why the double standard is being applied.
In this case, I think it's pretty fair to assume that a Secretary of State might well have a good reason for a double standard to be applied. It could be that a staffer gave bad advice, or that she'd received advice from security people.
Certainly I could believe that she'd be better able to vet her people than the state department.
This seems to be a bit of a political crushing, though.