vibranium Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Tuesday that the bureau would not recommend criminal charges in Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, lifting an enormous legal cloud from her presidential campaign, hours before her first joint campaign appearance with President Obama. But Mr. Comey rebuked Mrs. Clinton as being "extremely careless" in using a personal email address and server for sensitive information, declaring that an ordinary government official could have faced administrative sanction for such conduct. To warrant a criminal charge, Mr. Comey said, there had to be evidence that Mrs. Clinton intentionally sent or received classified information -- something that the F.B.I. did not find. "Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," he said at a news conference. The Justice Department is highly likely to accept the F.B.I.'s instruction. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Friday that she would accept the recommendation of the F.B.I. and career prosecutors in the case, after questions were raised about an impromptu meeting between her and former President Bill Clinton at an airport in Phoenix. Mr. Comey's statement came three days after F.B.I. investigators interviewed Mrs. Clinton, a sign that the case was winding down. He described an elaborate yearlong investigation, in which the F.B.I. examined multiple servers, read 30,000 emails and interviewed dozens of people. During the investigation, Mr. Comey said, the F.B.I. recovered additional work-related emails that Mrs. Clinton's lawyers had not turned over to the State Department, including some that contained classified information. But he said there was no evidence that she or her lawyers had intentionally deleted or withheld them. Still, Mr. Comey delivered what amounted to an extraordinary public tongue-lashing. "There is evidence to support a conclusion," he said, that Mrs. Clinton "should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation." The news conference by Mr. Comey concluded an investigation that began a year ago when the inspector general for the intelligence agencies told the Justice Department that he had found classified information among a small sampling of emails Mrs. Clinton had sent and received. The inspector general, I. Charles McCullough III, said that the emails contained information that was classified at the time they were sent but were not marked classified, and that the information should never have been sent on an unclassified system. The discovery of Mrs. Clinton's email practices grew out of a request by the House Select Committee on Benghazi for communications between Mrs. Clinton and other officials surrounding the September 2012 attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. As lawyers for the State Department gathered materials, they discovered that Mrs. Clinton had used a personal, nongovernment address for her email and routed the messages through a server, kept in her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. After a negotiation between the State Department and Mrs. Clinton's lawyers, she agreed to turn over 55,000 pages of email from her time as secretary of state. She withheld email -- roughly half the total number of messages -- that she said touched on personal issues, from yoga classes to the flower arrangements for her daughter's wedding. The State Department turned over to the House committee roughly 800 emails pertaining to Benghazi. Mrs. Clinton asked the department to release the remaining trove of emails, which set off a complicated, politically charged process of vetting each one to determine whether it contained classified information. The C.I.A., the State Department and other agencies reviewed the emails, designating hundreds of them with varying levels of classification. Mrs. Clinton has asserted that she did not send or receive any information marked classified at the time it was sent. But about two dozen emails were designated "top secret," the highest level of classification, and Mrs. Clinton's critics say she jeopardized national security. Several of those pertained to the C.I.A.'s drone program in Pakistan, which is a covert program, though it is widely reported in the Pakistani and American news media. ARTICLE SOURCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasbridge Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 This writer provides an excellent explanation of the Hillary situation: http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/05/hillary-clinton-is-above-the-law/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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flash48 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 George Soros, the puppet master can still pull the strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Gelatin Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 She may not be completely off the hook yet. If new -- and substantial -- evidence comes to light, the investigation will be re-opened by the FBI and the Justice Department. There's a lot of time between now and November. FBI Director James Comey's tone during the delivery of his 15-minute statement was especially stern and left little doubt as to his disappointment that the current evidence and facts don't support charges and prosecution. Personally, I think we can start labeling 'Hildebeast' as an unindicted presidential candidate who -- so far -- has eluded prosecution by the skin of her teeth. But, as I say, it's still a long time until November. Stay tuned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 2 hours ago, rasbridge said: This writer provides an excellent explanation of the Hillary situation: http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/05/hillary-clinton-is-above-the-law/ it is also a site known for having political points of view nd also a site that will go to the ends of the earth to stretch a truth to prove a point OR counterpoint...take everything concerning political points...especially in an election year... with a few pounds of salt to make it more palatable to swallow ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 13 minutes ago, dMog said: it is also a site known for having political points of view nd also a site that will go to the ends of the earth to stretch a truth to prove a point OR counterpoint...take everything concerning political points...especially in an election year... with a few pounds of salt to make it more palatable to swallow ... That's a Rush Limbaugh's kind of site. If all i had to do is read fictitious one sided articles, about politics, i would not need the internet at all , plenty of that gossip on public talk radio . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasbridge Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 4 hours ago, CODYQX4 said: Anyone who thought there was a 1% chance of prosecution is delusional. The laws don't apply when you work for the banksters and Big Brother. Having spent my post-military career as a federal employee of an Inspector General, I know that they would have "made an example" of me because I should have known better because of my position. Well, Clinton and her close advisers knew better. So, this was an ideal case for the FBI to make an example that no person is above the law. To me, this is a sad day for America... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 7 minutes ago, rasbridge said: Having spent my post-military career as a federal employee of an Inspector General, I know that they would have "made an example" of me because I should have known better because of my position. Well, Clinton and her close advisers knew better. So, this was an ideal case for the FBI to make an example that no person is above the law. To me, this is a sad day for America... i totally agree with you...but why not a word from you about the bad stuff trump does and-and has done...not like any of that stuff can be denied or explained away either... fraud...making millions by declaring bankruptcy refusing to pay legitimate debts to small businesses because as he told them... so what are you going to do... sue me ....you don't have the money to pay a lawyer to take me to court ... how many divorces... cheated on all his wives... racist and bigoted tweets so often that they cannot be accidental but by design ...panders to and will not deny neo-nazi and other assorted racist groups like and endorse him,,,, no trump is no better by ant means and does not deserve a free pass either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 6 hours ago, Ballistic Gelatin said: She may not be completely off the hook yet. If new -- and substantial -- evidence comes to light, the investigation will be re-opened by the FBI and the Justice Department. There's a lot of time between now and November. I've been hearing how the Clintons are going to get nailed for something Any Day Now for 25 years. 6 hours ago, flash48 said: George Soros, the puppet master can still pull the strings. "George Soros"! DRINK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasbridge Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 7 hours ago, dMog said: i totally agree with you...but why not a word from you about the bad stuff trump does and-and has done...not like any of that stuff can be denied or explained away either... fraud...making millions by declaring bankruptcy refusing to pay legitimate debts to small businesses because as he told them... so what are you going to do... sue me ....you don't have the money to pay a lawyer to take me to court ... how many divorces... cheated on all his wives... racist and bigoted tweets so often that they cannot be accidental but by design ...panders to and will not deny neo-nazi and other assorted racist groups like and endorse him,,,, no trump is no better by ant means and does not deserve a free pass either As a pensioner, I have donated my time the past 7 months to the Bernie Sanders campaign as a grassroots organizer. So, until now, the Democratic race has been my focus. Sorry, but I cannot say more because a moderator here has requested that I not express my political views. For the latest analysis on this topic, see here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/05/hillary-clintons-email-problems-might-be-even-worse-than-we-thought/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-without-charges-fbi-rebuke-leaves-a-heavy-political-cloud-over-clinton/2016/07/05/79b6f712-42c8-11e6-bc99-7d269f8719b1_story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash48 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 8 hours ago, rasbridge said: Sorry, but I cannot say more because a moderator here has requested that I not express my political views. Religion and Politics are two topics one should be careful when discussing. People have been known to lose their heads when the debate gets heated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 14 hours ago, rasbridge said: So, this was an ideal case for the FBI to make an example that no person is above the law. To me, this is a sad day for America... 18 hours ago, flash48 said: George Soros, the puppet master can still pull the strings. As it seems, Hitlery 'got away with it'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasbridge Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 On 7/6/2016 at 9:36 AM, pc71520 said: As it seems, Hitlery 'got away with it'... "Comey Has a Long History of Letting The Clintons Off The Hook" http://thebernreport.com/comey-long-history-letting-clintons-off-hook/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jogs Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Will they ever do the same with Assange and Snowden ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 1 hour ago, Jogs said: Will they ever do the same with Assange and Snowden ? No way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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