"But they did not expect these emails to be released in such a public way." When you email any public figure, expect it to be available publicly. This should

"But they did not expect these emails to be released in such a public way." When you email any public figure, expect it to be available publicly. This should be more of a learning exercise for the people that emailed him than anything else. The lesson is that anything you email a government official can and will be available to anyone that asks. Leave it the the media to take more transparency in government (which is what everyone seems to want) and spin it as a bad thing. If someone like Elizabeth Warren did the same thing, would we be seeing the same outcry? I think it would be spun to make it look like better transparency. I remember a couple of years ago Wikileaks released undercover agent information online with no redacted names or information. The majority of people here on HN thought it was no big deal. A more recent example is the Sony hacks. Emails were illegally obtained and published and sites like Gizmodo (and every other media outlet) didn't seem to care about the personal privacy of the people that were involved in these emails. They were too busy speculating on the content of the messages. I'm sick of the hypocrisy and spin to make your political opponents look bad. You don't care about privacy Gizmodo, so please stop lying.