Dick Cheney walloped Hillary Clinton Monday morning for her 'sloppy and unprofessional' habit of hosting classified State Department emails on a personal home-brew server housed at her upstate New York house.

The former U.S. vice president told CNN he 'found it surprising that somebody as high ranking as secretary of state, who's dealing with classified and sensitive information all the time, would think it was okay to have a private server in your home, where you put, you know, information and so forth or you send emails.'

Commingling personal messages with what might turn out to be some of America's most closely guarded secrets, Cheney said, 'reflects a lack of understanding about how easy it is for adversaries to tap into communications. The Chinese recently picked up the files ofeverybody who is currently working for the federal government.'

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Former VP Dick Cheney said Monday morning that Hillary Clinton's choice to mix her personal emails with sensitive State Department information was 'sloppy and unprofessional'

NOT HOLDING BACK: Cheney appeared on CNN's morning program alongside his daughter Liz and also urged VP Joe Biden to run for the White House – although he cracked a mischievous grin when he issued the advice

UNDER FIRE: As Clinton attracts slings and arrows from every corner, Cheney added his opinion that 'you should not operate in the way she did' as a high-ranking US official

'Maybe she went into it ignorant, but I find that hard to believe,' said Cheney, who was also President Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff, a