Since when is DHS leaking private information about an individual in order to help throw a presidential election simply a "violation of policy"?

It's slap on the wrist time over at the Department of Homeland Security. You remember them? The people collecting massive databases on all of us, including information about our religion and sexual orientation. But they assure us that they'll never misuse the information and violate our trust like the US military did when it spied on the phone sex conversations of its own officers. Well, now the DHS is saying that its own employees' apparent attempt to influence the presidential election for McCain - something worthy of a banana republic or a communist dictatorship - is simply a possible "violation of policy."

Violation of policy?

How about crime? How about an Orwellian violation of our privacy? How about proof that the DHS can't be trusted to keep America safe since apparently the Keystone Cops are running the place?