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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 TheRaven on Wednesday July 06 2016, @09:10AM
The end result may be the same, but the route is different. Animal Farm is commentary on the subversion of the communist ideals to impose a totalitarian state. During the Russian Revolution, power was initially devolved to Soviets (small community decision-making groups where everyone had a say). Shortly after, it was consolidated centrally by people who kept spouting the same rhetoric as the early revolutionaries, but simply as a way to control the masses. It's arguable whether Russia was ever communist (it skipped several steps proposed by Marx), but if it were then it only remained so for a year or two before becoming an oligarchy.
The USA's use of democracy and freedom as talking points has been quite similar, but the USA was never really in a position where everyone had a say in the governing of the country. It had moved towards oligarchy long before universal suffrage.
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