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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 Francis on Tuesday July 05 2016, @09:52PM
She chose the location of the server knowing that there would be classified materials sent to it and she was repeatedly warned that she couldn't do that. I'm not sure how much more intent they could have.
I'm not willing to vote for somebody that doesn't know or care about securing classified documents. I can't imagine that I'm the only one that refuses to vote for a known felon. Not to mention all the other things that are wrong with her as a candidate, the violations of retention policy on work related emails. The massive destruction of evidence and the inability to win an open primary.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @01:13AM
She chose the location of the server knowing that there would be classified materials sent to it and she was repeatedly warned that she couldn't do that. I'm not sure how much more intent they could have.
Facts not in evidence.
How in the world did you come to believe that she knew ahead of time that there would be classified material sent to it?
And if that was true, then she would have been just as 'guilty' regardless of what email system she used since both her server and the dept of state's servers are public facing systems because that's how email works.
99% of the arguments about this issue fail to rise above frothing of the mouth.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 06 2016, @01:48AM
You seem to have a poor grasp of the facts of life. She occupied an office which routinely processes classified data. Routinely - that means, all the time. And, she INSISTED that her work emails go to an unsecured server in her own possession. The reason given, that security was inconvenient for her.
We're gonna be able to vacation in Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and maybe Minnesota soon. Incredible times.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Francis on Wednesday July 06 2016, @03:59AM
As Runaway said, by the nature of her job people were going to be sending sensitive and classified documents to the email she used for work. She opted to commingle personal and professional correspondence on an unapproved of computer. If she genuinely didn't expect to have any classified materials sent to that address, then she's the most incompetent individual to ever hold office in the US or anywhere else.
That's sort of like a Wall Street broker being shocked that people are sending sensitive trade information to his work address. It would be more shocking if nobody were sending it to there.
But, even worse is the fact that when those emails started to show up that she didn't remedy the situation. A genuine mistake is one thing, but this continued for quite some time and there are literally tens of thousands of emails that are unaccounted for because she deleted them and had the servers wiped.
Not to mention the fact that she apparently retained these emails for years after the point where she left office when she was supposed to surrender all of them upon leaving service.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Fauxlosopher on Wednesday July 06 2016, @06:58AM
I came to believe that Hillary knew ahead of time that then-known classified material would be sent to her nonsecure system because Hillary herself demanded exactly that be done.
Check the facts for yourself: via wikileaks [wikileaks.org], tho feel free to browse the official gov release site as well:
Hillary wanted her "TPs" (presumably Talking Points), but folks trying to send the classified info were having trouble getting a secure FAX setup to work. Hillary's response?
That instruction is in direct contradiction with the Non-Disclosure Agreement required for access to classified information and also meets the criteria for violating the federal laws regarding the proper handling of such then-known classified information.