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Even as a European*, I find this of interest, because of the level of corruption it shows.
Headline: "Clinton Was 'Extremely Careless' With Email But Should Not Be Charged".
In his statement, Comey said that the FBI's investigation had found 110 emails on Clinton's servers that had contained classified information when they were sent or received, of which eight contained material at the highest classification level of "top secret." Noting that this information was being stored on "unclassified personal servers" less secure even than commercial services like Gmail and that Clinton's use of the private account was widely known, Comey said it was "possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal email account." Said Comey: "Any reasonable person should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that kind of information."
So: The FBI knows that she mishandled classified information. When you receive your security clearance, you are informed of the rules and the penalties for breaking them. Storing Secret, much less Top Secret information on a civilian server outside the control of the government violates those rules.
Yet, she will not be prosecuted. She was just "careless", no big deal. Laws are for the little people.
*Full disclosure: I used to be American, but turned in my passport some years ago. Various reasons, not least of which are the US tax policies. But the politics (The Shrub, Obama, and now...possibly Hillary!) - it's like a banana republic, only with nukes.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2016, @09:00PM
If you don't mind a not yet former American asking: Where did you choose to expat to, and did you go through formal renunciation of your US citizenship? If so did they charge absurd amounts of money to do so like they do today?
(Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Tuesday July 05 2016, @09:19PM
How do they charge you money for renouncing your citizenship? Or do you mean the deferred taxes from not having to mark-to-market your investments every year, instead simply doing so when you sell assets?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2016, @09:27PM
'Renouncing US Citizenship'
There are two different ways to renounce, one is 'when you join another country or do certain things that would trigger automatic revocation' and the other is 'Immediate renounciation... after visiting us twice with a 3 month 'change your mind period' in between.'
Both require you to visit an embassy on foreign soil in order to do so.
The fees were 500/2500, but I think they went up either this year or last year and are intended to go up again at least a couple more times over the next few years. Web searches are your friend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @12:35AM
Those are just the fees for moving your dossier from the "cold files" to the "warm files".
(Score: 1) by mathdan on Tuesday July 05 2016, @09:35PM
Administrative Processing of Formal Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship [federalregister.gov]
(Score: 2, Disagree) by legont on Wednesday July 06 2016, @12:05AM
You still have to pay the US taxes for the rest of your life; just saying...
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @04:13AM
You might be confusing the odd scenario right now where if you are a US citizen, but not a resident you have to pay US taxes even if you haven't resided in the US in a decade. There's also the catch that if the IRS can levy taxes on anything created while a US citizen. So if you know your company is going to go public next year and you renounce, they can still levy taxes on your revenue from the IPO. Even though the profits are new, the source - the company - was created when you were a US citizen. But once you renounce and begin your new life, that new life is completely independent of the US.