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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2016, @10:14PM
Note that just because a fact was classified does not necessarily mean any inclusion of that fact in an email came from a classified document.
It's been known that publicly-available info often ends up being classified.
For example, A Clinton aide could have heard that Imam Uri was going on vacation on May 5 from his/her connections, and included that fact in an email to Clinton. But somebody else happens to classify the vacation date at approximately the same time. The person who writes that email thus is not getting info from a classified document, YET it's technically "classified information". The FBI may be merely comparing text rather than verifying the actual source.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @01:58AM
That's true and, if you will recall, there were reports about a year ago that state and justice were arguing about the classification status of some of the info in the emails.
But the discussion around the FBI's statement today also includes 'urgent communications' where exigent circumstances prevented one or more parties from having access to secure comm channels so they chose to risk communicating in the clear so that people who needed to act could be fully informed. That's the kind of call I would expect a department secretary to have full authority to decide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @08:02AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again now: Hillary specifically instructed other people to send then-known classified information via insecure means.
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12605 [wikileaks.org]