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FBI Director on Hillary - "Extremely careless" but NO charges
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but law is subjective and the fbi and doj are the ones who make recommendations and prosecute and they chose not to
Law is not "subjective" but prosecutors do have discretion in their charging decisions.
However, they still have to justify why they chose to exercise their discretion the way they did. And it doesn't really look like they have a better answer than "She's running for President."
The 7 key findings in the FBI's Clinton email probe
FBI Director Comey revealed the expansive nature of the criminal probe into Clinton and her private email use.
By Louis Nelson
07/05/16 01:42 PM EDT
Along with FBI Director James Comey’s announcement Tuesday that the bureau would not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton came fresh details about the former secretary of state’s use of a personal email server and the investigation into it.
In an unusually specific press briefing, Comey detailed the bureau’s probe into the homebrew email server Clinton used during her four-year tenure at State, as well as the FBI's findings and ultimate recommendation to the Justice Department. The former secretary of state and her allies have long downplayed the investigation as a “security inquiry,” but Comey revealed Tuesday that the FBI’s probe was thorough, expansive and focused on Clinton and those with whom she interacted via the personal server.
Here are the major details Comey offered:
1. While the FBI found “no clear evidence” that Clinton had intentionally violated the laws concerning classified information, Comey said there is evidence that the former secretary of state and her team were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” The FBI director said Clinton’s use of an unclassified email system to handle classified information was “especially concerning” because the homebrew system was not protected by a full-time security team like the ones that protect official government servers and even commercial email services used by the general public, such as Gmail.
2. Of the 30,000 personal-server emails turned over by Clinton’s lawyers to the State Department, 110 individual messages and 52 email chains contained some level of classified information. Of those 52 email chains, eight contained information classified at the highest level, “top secret,” at the time they were sent. Another 36 email chains were classified at the “secret” level, while eight more were classified “confidential,” the lowest level. In addition to the emails that were classified at the time, 2,000 more emails that were not classified at the time of sending were later up-classified by government departments and agencies.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-fbi-investigation-clinton-225105
3. Clinton’s personal email system was not one server but multiple servers, which she accessed using “numerous” mobile devices. Comey said Clinton replaced her email servers with newer equipment throughout her tenure as secretary of state. The former secretary of state stored and decommissioned her older, unused servers in various ways, creating “a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands of hours of effort” on the part of FBI investigators piecing together her email system. Comey likened the process of assembling the thousands of email fragments left behind in old servers to “removing the frame from a huge, finished jigsaw puzzle and dumping the pieces on the floor.”
4. The FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email system extended well beyond the 30,000 messages handed over by the presumptive Democratic nominee’s lawyers to the State Department. Comey said the bureau discovered “several thousand” additional work-related emails from Clinton by searching devices that had been attached to the private email domain and by checking the archived email of other government employees. Of those additional emails discovered by the FBI, Comey said one was classified at the time it was sent or received at the “secret” level and another two were classified as “confidential.”
5. While the 30,000 emails handed over by Clinton’s team turned out to be a less than exhaustive accounting of her use of a personal email server, Comey said “we believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that sorting effort,” by the former secretary of state’s lawyers.
6. The FBI could find no direct evidence, Comey said, of intrusion into Clinton’s personal server by hackers, but added that the nature of her system made it unlikely that the bureau could find such evidence even if an intrusion had occurred. The FBI director also said that a variety of factors, including Clinton's accessing of the private server from within the territory of “sophisticated adversaries,” made it “possible” that hackers gained access to her personal email.
7. Comey said decisions to file charges in previous similar cases have been based on some combination of three factors: intentional mishandling of classified information, large quantities of classified information exposed in such a way to suggest intentional wrongdoing and “indications of disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice.” Because the bureau found no evidence of those factors, Comey said, the FBI recommended against filing charges against Clinton.
Read more: The 7 key findings in the FBI's Clinton email probe
Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook
FBI Director Comey revealed the expansive nature of the criminal probe into Clinton and her private email use.
By Louis Nelson
07/05/16 01:42 PM EDT
Along with FBI Director James Comey’s announcement Tuesday that the bureau would not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton came fresh details about the former secretary of state’s use of a personal email server and the investigation into it.
In an unusually specific press briefing, Comey detailed the bureau’s probe into the homebrew email server Clinton used during her four-year tenure at State, as well as the FBI's findings and ultimate recommendation to the Justice Department. The former secretary of state and her allies have long downplayed the investigation as a “security inquiry,” but Comey revealed Tuesday that the FBI’s probe was thorough, expansive and focused on Clinton and those with whom she interacted via the personal server.
Here are the major details Comey offered:
1. While the FBI found “no clear evidence” that Clinton had intentionally violated the laws concerning classified information, Comey said there is evidence that the former secretary of state and her team were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” The FBI director said Clinton’s use of an unclassified email system to handle classified information was “especially concerning” because the homebrew system was not protected by a full-time security team like the ones that protect official government servers and even commercial email services used by the general public, such as Gmail.
2. Of the 30,000 personal-server emails turned over by Clinton’s lawyers to the State Department, 110 individual messages and 52 email chains contained some level of classified information. Of those 52 email chains, eight contained information classified at the highest level, “top secret,” at the time they were sent. Another 36 email chains were classified at the “secret” level, while eight more were classified “confidential,” the lowest level. In addition to the emails that were classified at the time, 2,000 more emails that were not classified at the time of sending were later up-classified by government departments and agencies.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-fbi-investigation-clinton-225105
3. Clinton’s personal email system was not one server but multiple servers, which she accessed using “numerous” mobile devices. Comey said Clinton replaced her email servers with newer equipment throughout her tenure as secretary of state. The former secretary of state stored and decommissioned her older, unused servers in various ways, creating “a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands of hours of effort” on the part of FBI investigators piecing together her email system. Comey likened the process of assembling the thousands of email fragments left behind in old servers to “removing the frame from a huge, finished jigsaw puzzle and dumping the pieces on the floor.”
4. The FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email system extended well beyond the 30,000 messages handed over by the presumptive Democratic nominee’s lawyers to the State Department. Comey said the bureau discovered “several thousand” additional work-related emails from Clinton by searching devices that had been attached to the private email domain and by checking the archived email of other government employees. Of those additional emails discovered by the FBI, Comey said one was classified at the time it was sent or received at the “secret” level and another two were classified as “confidential.”
5. While the 30,000 emails handed over by Clinton’s team turned out to be a less than exhaustive accounting of her use of a personal email server, Comey said “we believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that sorting effort,” by the former secretary of state’s lawyers.
6. The FBI could find no direct evidence, Comey said, of intrusion into Clinton’s personal server by hackers, but added that the nature of her system made it unlikely that the bureau could find such evidence even if an intrusion had occurred. The FBI director also said that a variety of factors, including Clinton's accessing of the private server from within the territory of “sophisticated adversaries,” made it “possible” that hackers gained access to her personal email.
7. Comey said decisions to file charges in previous similar cases have been based on some combination of three factors: intentional mishandling of classified information, large quantities of classified information exposed in such a way to suggest intentional wrongdoing and “indications of disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice.” Because the bureau found no evidence of those factors, Comey said, the FBI recommended against filing charges against Clinton.
Read more: The 7 key findings in the FBI's Clinton email probe
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"Very very unfair!"
This guy has a toddler-like speech pattern.
I was just thinking this. I seriously wonder if this is how he normally speaks, and if so, how did he become a billionaire.
superunknown23
Superstar
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of republican voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something GREAT has happened."
This was their great last hope
This was their great last hope
Red Shield
Global Domination
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of republican voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something GREAT has happened."
This was their great last hope
This is what people said after the Benghazi hearings. And yet Hillary's reputation continued to suffer. Hillary not getting indicted just plays into the narrative that the Obama FBI and DOJ are corrupt.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of republican voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something GREAT has happened."
This was their great last hope
This is what people said after the Benghazi hearings. And yet Hillary's reputation continued to suffer. Hillary not getting indicted just plays into the narrative that the Obama FBI and DOJ are corrupt.
That proved it! Great post.
Sounds like you're upset you didn't agree with the outcome.
Is it suddenly wrong to be upset when government agencies avoid charging criminal conduct based on political considerations?
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Is it suddenly wrong to be upset when government agencies avoid charging criminal conduct based on political considerations?
We haven't seen evidence of that.
We haven't seen evidence of that.
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth.
