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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, @11:56PM
The law doesn't say you can't be a sinner. Cheating is, regretfully, legal in the USA.
The first legal issue is that she was his subordinate at work. This tends to create a workplace environment that is banned by various laws. For example, making OTHER people in the office uncomfortable could be a hostile work environment. (you can thank the supreme court for expanding sexual harassment) BTW, this creates a blackmail risk that is a security problem.
The second legal issue, the one that led to impeachment and the loss of his law license (bar), is that he lied about it under oath. The best you can say for Bill is that we let other people get away with this, which is the same sort of lame defense that Hillary is using. It's a huge problem that we don't prosecute everybody who does this. When there are no consequences for lying under oath, everybody does it and our court system makes horrible random bad decisions.