Email, the Media, and the Democrats.

I don't usually expound on issues involving the government but I find myself more and more puzzled and irritated by the direction of the media and the Democratic party in relation to people and events not only worldwide but here at home as well.
Take, for example, the current flap in Congress and the media regarding the emails sent (or received) by an aide in the Attorney General's office about the firing of some attorneys general.
There may or may not have been some wrong doing here but it seems to me the people would be best served by letting the investigation proceed in order. As far as the emails themselves, I'm confident whoever in the Attorney General's office composed and sent them, he or she sat back and weighed the consequences knowing full well the public nature of the email format. If that person had been bent on some destructive or subversive behavior, surely there would have been some monitoring of email communications in an organization as large as the Department of Justice and this would have been found out before the fact.
Even in private corporations (like the one where I work) it is a matter of policy that we don't write, copy, or forward anything that we don't want somebody else to read, no matter who that person may be. I can't feature the government having a more liberal policy regarding emails, especially in an office like that of the Attorney General.
I can only surmise, therefore, that the emails have to be a matter of no consequence, yet the political party in power and the media seem to have addressed the issue as though it were one of national security, making them seem all the more petty in my eyes.