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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, Funny) by theluggage on Wednesday July 06 2016, @10:10AM
My guess is that it was done specifically to avoid accountability and make it easier to illegally share information
I'm sure she absolutely didn't deliberately hire someone to install a private mail server to avoid accountability and make it easier to illegally share information.
Nah. Hilary was messing about between summits one day, trying out Debian on a spare PC (apparently Bill liked Woody) when she came across "SMTP HOWTO" and decided to have a go. She sent a few test messages, but unfortunately she'd typed "c#/-itz&39" instead of c#/-itz@39" on line 12397 of sendmail.cf causing the mail agent (her own custom Eudora clone implemented in EMACS) to use the new address as the default REPLY-TO header and it all kinda snowballed from there until she couldn't turn off the server without breaking the internet. Or something like that.
Total accident. Could happen to anybody.
(Gorammit Hilary, you've made me agree with Trump about something and now I need to use brain bleach for a week.)