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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: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday July 06 2016, @12:32AM
The whole point to having a personal email server was to try to shield herself from FOIA requests. Look at what she did. She was required to hand over *all* her email. she cherry picked her messages, said "here ya go, all you care about, my private stuff is private", then when told "um, we want all your email", she wiped her server, then said "like, what, with a cloth?" Then all the messages got recovered, she was all "um, ooops".
If 99% of the population had done what she did we'd be sitting in jail, not running for president. But she's "special", broke several laws, but no prosecutor will prosecute cuz it means they get the night shift at 7/11 if she wins the presidency.
Our country has gone to shit, neither presidential candidate has any business holding the office, both parties have proven themselves to be bankrupt.
Trump's Grave will be the world's most popular open air toilet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @12:56AM
That's speculation about motivations that I won't get into here. Let's focus on the technical side and technical risks in this thread.
While the Director's statement suggests the filtering missed some work-related messages, it appears to be a relatively small volume and no pattern indicating coverup was found in those skipped: those hired to filter probably merely didn't spot Waldo.