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Except for the instances when they can. Remember the OPM hack, aka Chinese getting the personal data of every government worker in the US, and everybody who ever undergone a security check, and their friends and relatives? I am still fascinated of the absolute absence of interest to this from pretty much everybody - like China having all private information of all US government is no big deal at all.
I disagree. She made a very smart decision - to circumvent every and all disclosure rules, created to supervise government workers, and she was successful in this. Of course, full success would be if nobody ever found about it at all, and the materials she wanted to hide just disappeared without a trace, but the second best was actually what happened - what she wanted to delete was deleted, what she wanted to hide was hidden, and she did not suffer any prosecution for it. If anything, she made it into a PR campaign - she is as brazen as to sell merchandise with "but her emails" written on it - she literally is marketing her own criminal behavior. This is not a behavior of a stupid person, this is a behavior of a brazen and arrogant criminal secure in her knowledge that she is untouchable.
There is very little similarity between Hillary and Trump cases. Hillary created a system to hide information from legitimate oversight - one crime (or, rather, one set of crimes), and that system likely also was insecure - second crime. The first crime had clear intent, while the second can be argued as criminal negligence (which does not require intent), since she did not specifically intend for the documents to be disclosed.
With Trump, there's a disagreement between whether or not the documents that Trump possessed are allowed for him to possess or not. While the President is supposed to be the ultimate authority in what is secret or not, I am not a lawyer, so I could imagine there are some technicalities that he should have gone through and he didn't, because he's Trump. It is, however, very clear that he did not intend to hide these documents from oversight or destroy them because they contained information he wanted to hide, and neither he did it in a manner that would be criminally negligent (despite all the photos with the boxes next to the toilet - the question is not about the toilet, but about who gets to be there and handle the boxes. There's nothing inherently insecure in the presence of the toilet, however bizarre it may look out of context) and expose them to disclosure. Very little in common between the two cases except they are both concerning documents.
And we know how it works because for example they said FISA surveillance would only be used in extreme cases against violent foreign terrorists, and they kept their promise. Oh wait, they didn't eve try...
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