People will talk about "politicians being incompetent", or act like actually anyone who has ever been in the office was like this. It's a pretty close and comforting way to deal with the reality of supporting a fraud without having to admit that you were duped.
What is the faulty reasoning here? Apart from "My side good, your side bad."
The faulty reasoning is saying that "this is just like previous administrations". It's not.
Obama's and Hillary's blackberries were government procured devices altered by the NSA for security purposes.
The current US defense secretary isn't doing that.