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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: 3, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Tuesday July 05 2016, @11:40PM
I'm a registered Democrat, and supported Sanders. Things like the whole Benghazi "scandal" was total BS in my book, but even I've always thought this email thing was serious shit, and has Nixon-esque arrogance written all over it. It's frankly insane that she's getting a bye on that one.
I've always thought it calls into question the degree to which she can be trusted. The caveat to that of course is that I in fact do trust Trump to to literally everything wrong, and will thus go the lesser of two evils route. Not a pretty picture at all, but that's where we are for sure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @01:38AM
the degree to which she can be trusted
For me the scary thing is that this is just coming in to question for many now AFTER everything she's done; encouraging the destabilization of the Middle East (especially Libya and Syria), protecting Bill and herself over the years (rape allegations for example), and not to mention the things her husband did as governor of AR. People have very short memories, or plain just don't care. She is practically the human incarnation of bad politics, and the fact that she can get away with it while being the epicenter of attention is a mere foreshadowing of the kind of power she will exercise in office.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mrchew1982 on Wednesday July 06 2016, @02:53PM
I believe that there are enough protections in place to stop Trump from ruining this country. It's painfully obvious that there aren't enough to stop Clinton.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @03:56PM
As a Sanders supporter, you probably noticed how the DNC basically decided that Clinton was going to be the candidate (via superdelegates and other shenanigans) regardless of what the voters wanted. There was at least as much motivation for the RNC to stop Trump, but they don't have superdelegates, so they failed. Here is what really matters about the general election:
If Trump wins, maybe the DNC learns that they should actually listen to their voters (Sanders polls better against Trump than Clinton does, after all) instead of trying to dictate who we get to vote for.
If Clinton wins, you can be damn sure the RNC will start having superdelegates to keep the voters from ever getting to pick a candidate again in the future.
That's what matters -- the future of democracy. The policy crap doesn't matter -- nobody does what they say they will when they become president and Congress wouldn't let them anyway. If you want to have the option of actually voting for someone that thinks outside the box (for better or worse) rather than someone who will toe the party line and kiss all the right donors' asses in the future, Trump needs to win even if every one of his policies is wrong.