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posted by n1 on Tuesday July 05 2016, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-difference-does-it-make? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @01:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @01:38AM (#370403)

    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.