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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2016, @09:38PM
While I agree with the general concept of Bush getting prison time, just like Clinton and hundreds of others, don't even pretend he started any of those things. He was just a figurehead for real powers influencing public opinion, performing psyops, and manipulating businesses and the military to their own eventual gains (whether financial or political or something else is an exercise for the reader.)
The real charges they should all be up on is treason, failure to uphold their sworn oath to the constitution and country, insider trading, corruption, corporate graft, leaking intelligence secrets (because lets be honest, they all have done it, directly or indirectly.) There might be others but those are enough to get them hanged or put in prison for the rest of their lives. But since both law enforcement and the judicial branch are in collusion, and both can be influenced by the legislative bodies, nothing will happen unless the people do something to remind them who they answer to, and what the consequences are of not fairly enforcing the laws against all. If the people are unwilling to do that, then it is their own fault when the people in charge consider themselves special, because the people are in that case tacitly implying they are through their inability to exert pressure upon their elected officials and legal enforcement bodies.