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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @02:06AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-governor-jeb-bush-used-e-mail-to-discuss-security-troop-movements/2015/03/14/0d7fae16-ca49-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html [washingtonpost.com]
Conducted public business from his private email server for eight years while he was governor of Florida, including highly confidential matters with national security importance. Didn't turn them over as required by law, for many years after he left office.
Who cares? Not the Republicans. Not Fox News. Not Breitbart, Drudge, Limbaugh, etc.
It only matters when HILLARY does it. Isn't that right, you stupid wingnuts. When a Republican governor does it, no big deal. All the emails have been handed over, so he's square. OK, toss in his name in a ritualized line of "I hate in when anyone pulls this". You do, huh? How many times has Jeb been called a criminal who needs to be locked up for the rest of his life, just for making a typical "easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permisson" type decision that chief executives routinely make?
Go fuck yourselves.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @04:48AM
It isn't "right" when anyone does it. That's the point of law.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday July 06 2016, @04:54AM
Breitbart did have an article about a story in The Verge that criticised Jeb Bush for releasing other people's personal information when he made his e-mail archive public. It says the action might have been illegal.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/10/report-jeb-bush-releases-personal-information-social-security-numbers-in-massive-email-dump/ [breitbart.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @08:06AM
Fine; let them both share a prison cell.