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...and kept Hillary Clinton out of jail.

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What kept Secretary Clinton out of jail was her failure to commit a crime. What contributed to keeping her out of the Oval Office was Director Comey's unjustified and unprecedented innuendo that new evidence of misconduct had surfaced. --Bob

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For a smart guy, you sure are an idiot. Clinton committed several crimes. Comey's conclusions gave the impression that intent was a component of those crimes. It is not. Surely, you've read the actual statutes and Comey's list of what Hillary actually had done. How can an intellectual lawyer come to the conclusion that no crime was committed?

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Having worked with highly classified information for my entire career, I know something about this subject. Security violations do occur. We're all human and make mistakes. Consequences range from a warning to removal of security clearances and firing. The only violations prosecuted as crimes are intentionally revealing classified information to an uncleared person.

Clinton's worst violation was this:While classification levels are sometimes murky (so many of Clinton's unclassified emails were classified later) the difference between Special Access and unclassified is obvious. Anyone who's had a security briefing knows that if you read an email like that on an unclassified system, you must report it, and you definitely can't reply or forward it.

As Comey says, "Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities." So intent is very important. Like I said (and so does Comey), nobody is ever criminally prosecuted for unintentional security violations. But even if they won't "lock her up," her carelessness and dismissive attitude deserved to be campaign issues.

Another fact that's overlooked: Clinton made a huge mistake when she used a private server, because otherwise nobody would have known about the problem. But legally, transmitting classified information on the unclassified State Department system would have been just as bad. And using a commercial email service would have been worse, because it isn't possible to sanitize the system after a violation is discovered.

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Please enlighten me. Was it you or was it the staff of the Daily Wire who reviewed the hours of testimony and tons of documents to determine what Clinton did or did not do? Because that's what a jury would have to do to convict her, and that's what a grand jury would have to do, at least in part, to indict her.

You're relying on what James Comey said in two paragraphs of summing up in his description of her behavior. The fact that it doesn't jibe with his eventual decision not to press charges likely says more about the actual quality of the evidence itself and the fact that his claims in regard to it may well have been hyperbole calculated to get a reaction from the right wingers.

Further, there's been no proof that Clinton knew that the material was classified, and that knowledge, or at least gross negligence in making that determination, was key to a conviction on any of those statutes. It's the difference between me seeing a classified document on my desk and taking it home to work on it, and me seeing a pile of papers on my desk, one of which in the middle is classified, and taking them home. The worst thing that's been shown is that if she had checked more carefully, she could have noticed there were classified documents. That's the definition of ordinary as opposed to gross negligence.

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Not looking so fake now.

And it looks like Flynn lied to the FBI by denying that he'd discussed sanctions during his (multiple) phone calls with the Russian ambassador. Lying to the FBI is a felony. I await as many as 37 investigations from the House Oversight Committee to get to the bottom of this.

We have already reached the point where the classic question is appropriate. What did Donny know and when did he know it? --Bob

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I really wish that Attorney General Lynch had appointed a special prosecutor before she left office. --Bob

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To investigate herself for meeting with and discussing an active investigation with the spouse of the target of that investigation? Yeah, me, too.

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The Senate Democratic Leader sounds like he agrees with both of you.

Told you it wouldn't stop him. I'm glad it seems to have hurt him, and I'm relieved that a special counsel was appointed. ABC is reporting that the White House was blindsided by the appointment so I have hope that the appointment process really was independent, and I have confidence in Mueller to run a competent investigation. I just wish he'd been appointed four months ago. --Bob

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