Hold it together Dawg. I'm wound up like at 8 day clock too, but going off half cocked won't help.
FBI - not prosecuting Clinton
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Hold it together Dawg. I'm wound up like at 8 day clock too, but going off half cocked won't help.
I have almost become obsessed with finding the cure. I will admit I am reading a lot of crap on the net that just gets me going more.
I feel the state of our government now is worse then it ever has been my entire life.
I just read a article where Muslims were marching in Chicago chanting death to Isreal and America, we have a government that says Muslim people stand for peace, let's let 100,000 Syrians in this country without Vetting them. Then I read a story about these #}%** that burn and stand on the American flag, black lives matter, Michael brown, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, 60 shot in Chicago this weekend, college safe speech zone, affirmative action, gun confiscation, MTBE in the water, all the while our government is run by big banks and business, media is Baught and paid for by rich liberals that manipulate everything towards there left agenda, and the list goes on and on.
I am tired of it all, I am tired of watching my morals and values flushed down the toilet from others, it is all coming to a head, and I welcome it to explode. I am less then happy with my country right now.
I feel the state of our government now is worse then it ever has been my entire life.
I just read a article where Muslims were marching in Chicago chanting death to Isreal and America, we have a government that says Muslim people stand for peace, let's let 100,000 Syrians in this country without Vetting them. Then I read a story about these #}%** that burn and stand on the American flag, black lives matter, Michael brown, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, 60 shot in Chicago this weekend, college safe speech zone, affirmative action, gun confiscation, MTBE in the water, all the while our government is run by big banks and business, media is Baught and paid for by rich liberals that manipulate everything towards there left agenda, and the list goes on and on.
I am tired of it all, I am tired of watching my morals and values flushed down the toilet from others, it is all coming to a head, and I welcome it to explode. I am less then happy with my country right now.
Reading the FBI report it becomes quite clear that many many many times, these illegal Acts were committed by Hillary and her staff.
While they stopped short of using the word illegal or Criminal, the actions Comey describes in his report are clearly criminal actions.
The fact that no one will prosecute does not erase the fact that criminal Acts were committed.
The report says that Hillary is a criminal but we're not going to prosecute her.
Clearly a fox is in charge of this hen house.
While they stopped short of using the word illegal or Criminal, the actions Comey describes in his report are clearly criminal actions.
The fact that no one will prosecute does not erase the fact that criminal Acts were committed.
The report says that Hillary is a criminal but we're not going to prosecute her.
Clearly a fox is in charge of this hen house.
I think the worst part of this is not that she was not charged but that they admit she broke the rules, admit she put information at risk, admit she violated procedure yet still chose not to prosecute.
The power the Clinton's have in DC is unbelievable even for DC standards, I can't imagine what it would become if she becomes the president.
The power the Clinton's have in DC is unbelievable even for DC standards, I can't imagine what it would become if she becomes the president.
The law. Not the rules. She broke the law.
That's what the report says and that's what makes her a criminal (convicted or not.)
The only mitigating factor is that the FBI could not prove intent.
But lack of intent is not Absolution just like lack of knowledge is not absolution.
If I shoot my gun up in the air and the bullet comes down on your head it was never my intent to kill you. But you're still dead.
If they find out that people died because of Hillary's "excuse," at that point I believe they'll go after her again.
Well I could see her saluting from the podium with a very small mustache . . .
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Clinton’s Handling of Classified Information
An FBI investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information resulted in no criminal charges, but it revealed that Clinton and her campaign made statements in the past about her email use that have turned out to be false or misleading:
Classified Information
Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has denied mishandling classified information ever since the New York Times on March 2, 2015, disclosed that Clinton “exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state.”
At a March 10 press conference, Clinton addressed her unusual email arrangement. Her office at the time said that on Dec. 5, 2014, it gave the State Department 30,490 printed copies of work-related emails. Clinton said none of them contained classified information.
Clinton, March 10, 2015: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.
On the same day, her office released a Q&A that said a “separate, closed email system was used by the State Department for the sole purpose of handling classified communications which was designed to prevent such information from being transmitted anywhere other than within that system.”
But about four months later, the inspectors general of the State Department and the Intelligence Community reviewed 40 of Clinton’s emails and found that four did contain classified information, referring the case to the FBI for what they called an investigation into the “potential compromise of classified information.” The inspectors general said the four emails “did not contain classification markings.”
After the inspectors general reported its findings, Clinton and her campaign amended their public statements to say that she did not send or receive information that was marked classified. But that has turned out to be false, too.
For example, the Clinton campaign last year released an “updated fact sheet” on Clinton’s emails that said, “No information in Clinton’s emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them.” The campaign said “it is common for information previously unclassified to be upgraded to classified” when emails are reviewed for public release.
Clinton told Fox News’ Bret Baier at a March 7th town hall event, “Nothing I sent was marked classified or that I received was marked classified.” She later said in the same event, “I will reiterate, because it’s a fact, nothing I sent or received was marked classified.”
An FBI investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information resulted in no criminal charges, but it revealed that Clinton and her campaign made statements in the past about her email use that have turned out to be false or misleading:
- Clinton repeatedly claimed that she did not send or receive any information that was marked classified in her personal emails. That’s false. FBI Director James Comey said more than 2,000 emails contained classified information and some of them “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.”
- Clinton said her lawyers “went through every single email” to determine which ones were personal and which were work-related, and that they were “overly inclusive” in which ones were provided to the State Department. Comey said the lawyers did not go through every email. Rather, they used header information and search terms to identify work-related emails, and, he said, it is “highly likely” they missed some.
Classified Information
Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has denied mishandling classified information ever since the New York Times on March 2, 2015, disclosed that Clinton “exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state.”
At a March 10 press conference, Clinton addressed her unusual email arrangement. Her office at the time said that on Dec. 5, 2014, it gave the State Department 30,490 printed copies of work-related emails. Clinton said none of them contained classified information.
Clinton, March 10, 2015: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.
On the same day, her office released a Q&A that said a “separate, closed email system was used by the State Department for the sole purpose of handling classified communications which was designed to prevent such information from being transmitted anywhere other than within that system.”
But about four months later, the inspectors general of the State Department and the Intelligence Community reviewed 40 of Clinton’s emails and found that four did contain classified information, referring the case to the FBI for what they called an investigation into the “potential compromise of classified information.” The inspectors general said the four emails “did not contain classification markings.”
After the inspectors general reported its findings, Clinton and her campaign amended their public statements to say that she did not send or receive information that was marked classified. But that has turned out to be false, too.
For example, the Clinton campaign last year released an “updated fact sheet” on Clinton’s emails that said, “No information in Clinton’s emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them.” The campaign said “it is common for information previously unclassified to be upgraded to classified” when emails are reviewed for public release.
Clinton told Fox News’ Bret Baier at a March 7th town hall event, “Nothing I sent was marked classified or that I received was marked classified.” She later said in the same event, “I will reiterate, because it’s a fact, nothing I sent or received was marked classified.”
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Below are other examples of statements Clinton made this year, including one just two days before the FBI director revealed the department’s findings:
Clinton at a Democratic debate, Feb. 4: I never sent or received any classified material.
Clinton at a Democratic debate, March 9: But here’s the cut to the chase facts. I did not send or receive any emails marked classified at the time.
Clinton on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” May 8: There was never any material marked classified that was sent or received by me.
Clinton on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” July 3: I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.
We now know from the FBI investigation that:
At his July 5 press conference, Comey announced his office will not recommend that charges be brought against Clinton or her staff. But the FBI director said Clinton and her staff “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
“Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information,” Comey said. “But even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”
Missed and Deleted Work-Related Emails
Comey disabused Clinton’s earlier claim that in efforts to separate personal from work-related emails, her lawyers “went through every single email” and were “overly inclusive” in what were considered work-related emails that were then provided to the State Department.
Clinton’s lawyers did not go through every single email. As Comey noted, they used header information and search terms to try to find all work-related emails. As a result, Comey said that it was “highly likely that their search missed some work-related emails.”
Comey said the FBI recovered “several thousand work-related emails” that were not provided to the State Department, and he said it was possible they included some of the emails “deleted as personal by her lawyers when they reviewed and sorted her emails for production in late 2014.”
Clinton at a Democratic debate, Feb. 4: I never sent or received any classified material.
Clinton at a Democratic debate, March 9: But here’s the cut to the chase facts. I did not send or receive any emails marked classified at the time.
Clinton on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” May 8: There was never any material marked classified that was sent or received by me.
Clinton on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” July 3: I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.
We now know from the FBI investigation that:
- More than 2,000 of the 30,490 emails Clinton turned over to the State Department contained classified information, including 110 emails in 52 email chains that contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. (Most emails were retroactively deemed to contain classified information by the U.S. agencies from which the information originated.)
- Some of the emails containing classified information “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information,” contrary to Clinton’s claims that none was marked classified. Comey did not provide a specific number.
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everal thousand work-related emails” were not turned over to the State Department in 2014, but were recovered by the FBI. Comey said “three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received.”
At his July 5 press conference, Comey announced his office will not recommend that charges be brought against Clinton or her staff. But the FBI director said Clinton and her staff “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
“Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information,” Comey said. “But even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”
Missed and Deleted Work-Related Emails
Comey disabused Clinton’s earlier claim that in efforts to separate personal from work-related emails, her lawyers “went through every single email” and were “overly inclusive” in what were considered work-related emails that were then provided to the State Department.
Clinton’s lawyers did not go through every single email. As Comey noted, they used header information and search terms to try to find all work-related emails. As a result, Comey said that it was “highly likely that their search missed some work-related emails.”
Comey said the FBI recovered “several thousand work-related emails” that were not provided to the State Department, and he said it was possible they included some of the emails “deleted as personal by her lawyers when they reviewed and sorted her emails for production in late 2014.”
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In an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell in September, Clinton said she and other past secretaries of state were instructed by the State Department in October 2014 to go through their emails and separate personal from work-related emails, and then to provide the department all of the work-related emails. Clinton said she directed her lawyers to do that.
Clinton, Sept. 4, 2015: And it took weeks, but they went through every single email.
Mitchell: So the lawyers went through it.
Clinton: Yes. Every single email. And they were overly inclusive, if they thought anything was connected. In fact, so inclusive the State Department has already told us they’re going to return 1,200 emails because they were totally personal.
More recently, Clinton said in a Fox News town hall event on March 7 that she had “turned over everything” to the State Department.
Back in March, Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle and a former director of litigation at the National Archives, told us that he was concerned about the thoroughness of the lawyers’ review process to determine which emails to preserve and which to delete. As we noted then, the lawyers used search terms such as “Libya” and “Benghazi” as well as the first and last names of more than 100 government officials to ferret out work-related emails.
Because of that methodology, Comey said it is “highly likely” the lawyers’ search missed some work-related emails. And, he said, some of them may be included among the “several thousand” work-related emails discovered by the FBI that were not among the 30,000 provided by Clinton to the State Department in 2014.
Comey said the FBI discovered those work-related emails in a “variety of ways.” “Some had been deleted over the years,” and the FBI “found traces of them on servers or devices that had been connected to the private email domain.” Others were found in the archived emails of government officials with whom Clinton was corresponding. And others were “recovered from that painstaking review of the millions of email fragments dumped into the slack space of the server that was decommissioned in 2013,” Comey said.
Among those several thousand work-related emails that were not provided to the State Department, Comey said, “three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received; one at the secret level and two at the confidential level. There were no additional top secret emails found.”
Comey added that the FBI “found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them in some way.” As for the emails sorted by Clinton’s lawyers (who then deleted all emails not deemed work-related), Comey said he had “reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that sorting effort.”
Nonetheless, Comey said, it is “highly likely” the lawyers missed some work-related emails, and that the FBI later found some of them.
Clinton, Sept. 4, 2015: And it took weeks, but they went through every single email.
Mitchell: So the lawyers went through it.
Clinton: Yes. Every single email. And they were overly inclusive, if they thought anything was connected. In fact, so inclusive the State Department has already told us they’re going to return 1,200 emails because they were totally personal.
More recently, Clinton said in a Fox News town hall event on March 7 that she had “turned over everything” to the State Department.
Back in March, Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle and a former director of litigation at the National Archives, told us that he was concerned about the thoroughness of the lawyers’ review process to determine which emails to preserve and which to delete. As we noted then, the lawyers used search terms such as “Libya” and “Benghazi” as well as the first and last names of more than 100 government officials to ferret out work-related emails.
Because of that methodology, Comey said it is “highly likely” the lawyers’ search missed some work-related emails. And, he said, some of them may be included among the “several thousand” work-related emails discovered by the FBI that were not among the 30,000 provided by Clinton to the State Department in 2014.
Comey said the FBI discovered those work-related emails in a “variety of ways.” “Some had been deleted over the years,” and the FBI “found traces of them on servers or devices that had been connected to the private email domain.” Others were found in the archived emails of government officials with whom Clinton was corresponding. And others were “recovered from that painstaking review of the millions of email fragments dumped into the slack space of the server that was decommissioned in 2013,” Comey said.
Among those several thousand work-related emails that were not provided to the State Department, Comey said, “three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received; one at the secret level and two at the confidential level. There were no additional top secret emails found.”
Comey added that the FBI “found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them in some way.” As for the emails sorted by Clinton’s lawyers (who then deleted all emails not deemed work-related), Comey said he had “reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that sorting effort.”
Nonetheless, Comey said, it is “highly likely” the lawyers missed some work-related emails, and that the FBI later found some of them.
Comey, July 5: It could also be that some of the additional work-related emails that we’ve recovered were among those deleted as personal by her lawyers when they reviewed and sorted her emails for production in late 2014. The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her emails as we did for those available to us. Instead, they relied on header information and they used search terms to try to find all work-related emails among the reportedly more than 60,000 that were remaining on her system at the end of 2014.
It’s highly likely that their search missed some work-related emails and that we later found them, for example in the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of a server. It’s also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all emails they did not produce to State, and the lawyers then cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
In other words, Clinton was wrong when she said her lawyers “went through every single email” and were “overly inclusive” in what they provided to the State Department.
Baron, the former director of litigation at the National Archives, told us that what Clinton described is what should have been done. Baron said a team of people could have reviewed all 60,000 emails by hand in a week or two. But that’s not what happened.
It’s highly likely that their search missed some work-related emails and that we later found them, for example in the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of a server. It’s also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all emails they did not produce to State, and the lawyers then cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
In other words, Clinton was wrong when she said her lawyers “went through every single email” and were “overly inclusive” in what they provided to the State Department.
Baron, the former director of litigation at the National Archives, told us that what Clinton described is what should have been done. Baron said a team of people could have reviewed all 60,000 emails by hand in a week or two. But that’s not what happened.
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Hillary Clinton may avoid criminal charges, but the searing rebuke of her “extremely careless” email practices Tuesday by FBI Director James B. Comey is likely to reverberate through the November election and, if she wins, well into her presidency.
In a methodical, 15-minute statement bringing an end to the FBI investigation of Clinton’s personal email system while she was secretary of state, Comey laid bare a litany of facts that amounted to a searing admonishment of her judgment, management and stewardship of state secrets.
Even as Comey lifted a legal cloud by announcing that the FBI would not recommend criminal charges, he systematically obliterated many of the key defenses Clinton and her advisers have offered to reassure the public in the 15 months since the discovery that she used a private email system. For instance, Clinton had insisted that she did not send or receive classified materials, but Comey said the FBI found that 110 of her emails contained classified information.
For weeks now, Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has been arguing that her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, is unfit to be president and cannot be trusted in the Oval Office. She had hoped that a rally Tuesday afternoon in Charlotte with President Obama — their first joint appearance of the campaign — would underscore that contrast with Trump.
Instead, the remarks by Comey — a Republican with a sterling reputation among leaders of both parties — delivered from a lectern at FBI headquarters cast fresh doubt on Clinton’s own fitness and trustworthiness.
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey said.
The Clinton campaign had no advance warning of the precise timing or contents of Comey’s announcement, although an FBI interview conducted with Clinton on Saturday was widely viewed as a final step in resolving the investigation. Comey said he had not coordinated or reviewed his statement with any part of the government.
At Clinton’s New York campaign headquarters, staffers scrambled to gather around the large television screens arrayed in the office as Comey took the podium, not knowing what he would say. Clinton herself was poised to deliver unrelated remarks to a teachers union in Washington before boarding Air Force One with Obama to fly to North Carolina.
The specter of a criminal indictment had loomed over the final months of the outgoing president, who is enjoying some of the best approval ratings of his presidency. An unscheduled personal meeting at the Phoenix airport last week between former president Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, whose department will ultimately decide on charges, also garnered criticism from both sides of the aisle.
But Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies breathed a sigh of relief after Comey all but erased the possibility that she might be indicted. Although he said the FBI was referring the decision to the Justice Department, Comey added that “our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” It would be highly unusual for federal prosecutors not to follow the bureau’s counsel.
“We are pleased that the career officials handling this case have determined that no further action by the Department is appropriate,” Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement. “As the Secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now resolved.”
Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart said “it’s not a clean bill of health, but it’s a workable situation.” He said Clinton’s struggles with trustworthiness “are not going to just all melt away,” but that “it seems to me that ‘Crooked Hillary’ doesn’t have the same sort of sting that it would have had with an indictment.”
Republicans sought to swiftly capitalize on the situation. Trump assailed Clinton for what he called “illegal activities” and “bad judgment,” suggesting that the Obama administration was protecting her from prosecution.
“Folks — the system is rigged,” Trump said in a statement. “The normal punishment, in this case, would include losing authority to handle classified information, and that too disqualifies Hillary Clinton from being President. The final jury will be the American people, and they will issue the verdict on her corruption, incompetence, and bad judgment on November 8th.”
David Bossie, a conservative activist who chairs the super PAC Defeat Crooked Hillary, issued a statement calling Clinton “a serial liar who has a trust problem” and that the email episode “disqualifies” her from serving as president.
Public polls show that many voters do not trust Clinton and that the email controversy already has harmed her political standing. Polls consistently show that roughly two-thirds of Americans do not consider Clinton “honest and trustworthy” — typically her lowest rating in a series of attribute questions.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll in June found that 56 percent of all adults disapprove of her handling of questions about her email use — 44 percent of them “strongly disapproving.”
It is unclear whether the FBI’s findings, delivered by Comey on Tuesday, will further erode Clinton’s standing with the public. Republican pollster Neil Newhouse described the FBI’s findings as “damning results, just not indictable,” and expects fallout in the polls.
“Very little of her explanations hold up, most are at odds with the facts, and it was much worse than she admitted,” Newhouse said in an email Tuesday. “I’m not sure voters are going to be surprised, but when she’s already trailing on the key attributes of ‘honest and trustworthy’ to Donald Trump, today’s FBI findings are going to dig her hole even deeper.”
However, Clinton’s allies, including former congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), believe the political fallout from the email controversy already has occurred.
“The criticism of her, the damage she suffered from having made a big mistake and having been irresponsible for using that server, has already happened,” Frank said in an interview. “She’s already paid a political price for it.”
Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) — a potential Clinton running mate — told reporters in Richmond: “I never believed this was going to be something in the criminal realm or even close to it. I have expected to get to this place where this is in the matter of lessons learned.”
Senior Democrats expect Trump and his allies to bang the drums about the email controversy for the remainder of the campaign, but they believe the issue will have little currency with persuadable voters short of an indictment.
“Comey cut the legs out from under the only narrative that could have hurt her,” said Democratic strategist Robert Shrum. “I assume that Trump will continue to try to make hay out of this, and I think it will go about as well as the Republicans did on Whitewater or Benghazi or anything else. I just think it’s fundamentally over.”
In a methodical, 15-minute statement bringing an end to the FBI investigation of Clinton’s personal email system while she was secretary of state, Comey laid bare a litany of facts that amounted to a searing admonishment of her judgment, management and stewardship of state secrets.
Even as Comey lifted a legal cloud by announcing that the FBI would not recommend criminal charges, he systematically obliterated many of the key defenses Clinton and her advisers have offered to reassure the public in the 15 months since the discovery that she used a private email system. For instance, Clinton had insisted that she did not send or receive classified materials, but Comey said the FBI found that 110 of her emails contained classified information.
For weeks now, Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has been arguing that her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, is unfit to be president and cannot be trusted in the Oval Office. She had hoped that a rally Tuesday afternoon in Charlotte with President Obama — their first joint appearance of the campaign — would underscore that contrast with Trump.
Instead, the remarks by Comey — a Republican with a sterling reputation among leaders of both parties — delivered from a lectern at FBI headquarters cast fresh doubt on Clinton’s own fitness and trustworthiness.
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey said.
The Clinton campaign had no advance warning of the precise timing or contents of Comey’s announcement, although an FBI interview conducted with Clinton on Saturday was widely viewed as a final step in resolving the investigation. Comey said he had not coordinated or reviewed his statement with any part of the government.
At Clinton’s New York campaign headquarters, staffers scrambled to gather around the large television screens arrayed in the office as Comey took the podium, not knowing what he would say. Clinton herself was poised to deliver unrelated remarks to a teachers union in Washington before boarding Air Force One with Obama to fly to North Carolina.
The specter of a criminal indictment had loomed over the final months of the outgoing president, who is enjoying some of the best approval ratings of his presidency. An unscheduled personal meeting at the Phoenix airport last week between former president Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, whose department will ultimately decide on charges, also garnered criticism from both sides of the aisle.
But Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies breathed a sigh of relief after Comey all but erased the possibility that she might be indicted. Although he said the FBI was referring the decision to the Justice Department, Comey added that “our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” It would be highly unusual for federal prosecutors not to follow the bureau’s counsel.
“We are pleased that the career officials handling this case have determined that no further action by the Department is appropriate,” Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement. “As the Secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now resolved.”
Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart said “it’s not a clean bill of health, but it’s a workable situation.” He said Clinton’s struggles with trustworthiness “are not going to just all melt away,” but that “it seems to me that ‘Crooked Hillary’ doesn’t have the same sort of sting that it would have had with an indictment.”
Republicans sought to swiftly capitalize on the situation. Trump assailed Clinton for what he called “illegal activities” and “bad judgment,” suggesting that the Obama administration was protecting her from prosecution.
“Folks — the system is rigged,” Trump said in a statement. “The normal punishment, in this case, would include losing authority to handle classified information, and that too disqualifies Hillary Clinton from being President. The final jury will be the American people, and they will issue the verdict on her corruption, incompetence, and bad judgment on November 8th.”
David Bossie, a conservative activist who chairs the super PAC Defeat Crooked Hillary, issued a statement calling Clinton “a serial liar who has a trust problem” and that the email episode “disqualifies” her from serving as president.
Public polls show that many voters do not trust Clinton and that the email controversy already has harmed her political standing. Polls consistently show that roughly two-thirds of Americans do not consider Clinton “honest and trustworthy” — typically her lowest rating in a series of attribute questions.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll in June found that 56 percent of all adults disapprove of her handling of questions about her email use — 44 percent of them “strongly disapproving.”
It is unclear whether the FBI’s findings, delivered by Comey on Tuesday, will further erode Clinton’s standing with the public. Republican pollster Neil Newhouse described the FBI’s findings as “damning results, just not indictable,” and expects fallout in the polls.
“Very little of her explanations hold up, most are at odds with the facts, and it was much worse than she admitted,” Newhouse said in an email Tuesday. “I’m not sure voters are going to be surprised, but when she’s already trailing on the key attributes of ‘honest and trustworthy’ to Donald Trump, today’s FBI findings are going to dig her hole even deeper.”
However, Clinton’s allies, including former congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), believe the political fallout from the email controversy already has occurred.
“The criticism of her, the damage she suffered from having made a big mistake and having been irresponsible for using that server, has already happened,” Frank said in an interview. “She’s already paid a political price for it.”
Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) — a potential Clinton running mate — told reporters in Richmond: “I never believed this was going to be something in the criminal realm or even close to it. I have expected to get to this place where this is in the matter of lessons learned.”
Senior Democrats expect Trump and his allies to bang the drums about the email controversy for the remainder of the campaign, but they believe the issue will have little currency with persuadable voters short of an indictment.
“Comey cut the legs out from under the only narrative that could have hurt her,” said Democratic strategist Robert Shrum. “I assume that Trump will continue to try to make hay out of this, and I think it will go about as well as the Republicans did on Whitewater or Benghazi or anything else. I just think it’s fundamentally over.”
Petition the White House
They seem to like polls, well, lets' give them one to stick in their pipe
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Charge Hillary Rodham Clinton pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 641, 793, 794, 798, 952, and 1924
Created by Z.T. on July 05, 2016
Secretary of State Clinton was in direct violation of the agreement between her and the United States of American outlined on the Standard Form 312, section 4. She sent classified information outside of a server with the classification needed to keep the information she was sending secure. Her actions have created a major security violation and could potentially be used by enemies of the state. This petition is being used to reverse the FBI decision and have HRC charged with all of the aforementioned charges, along with any others that are outlined in the SF 312.
They seem to like polls, well, lets' give them one to stick in their pipe
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Charge Hillary Rodham Clinton pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 641, 793, 794, 798, 952, and 1924
Created by Z.T. on July 05, 2016
Secretary of State Clinton was in direct violation of the agreement between her and the United States of American outlined on the Standard Form 312, section 4. She sent classified information outside of a server with the classification needed to keep the information she was sending secure. Her actions have created a major security violation and could potentially be used by enemies of the state. This petition is being used to reverse the FBI decision and have HRC charged with all of the aforementioned charges, along with any others that are outlined in the SF 312.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...-pursuant-18-usc-641-793-794-798-952-and-1924
Over 79,000 people have signed in one day.
Over 79,000 people have signed in one day.
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also: Keep legal guns legal.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...-automatic-rifles-carbines-and-legal-firearms
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...-automatic-rifles-carbines-and-legal-firearms
Federal Law: from Title 18. Section 2071 part (b)
"Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
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"Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
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