Rick DiCaro

I wish.

And yes, I would take her name.

From May 6th:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/06/hillary-clinton-is-going-to-be-exonerated-on-the-email-controversy-it-wont-matter/?tid=ss_tw

... That point about her intending to break classification rules is important, because in order to have broken the law, it isn’t enough for Clinton to have had classified information in a place where it was possible for it to be hacked. She would have had to intentionally given classified information to someone without authorization to have it, like David Petraeus did when he showed classified documents to his mistress (and then lied to the FBI about it, by the way). ...

Hillary Clinton’s email problems might be even worse than we thought
By Chris Cillizza July 5 at 12:08 PM

Here's the good news for Hillary Clinton: The FBI has recommended no charges be brought followings its investigation of the former secretary of state's private email server.

Here's the bad news: Just about everything else.

FBI Director James Comey dismantled large portions of Clinton's long-told story about her private server and what she sent or received on it during a stirring 15-minute news conference following which he took no questions. While Comey exonerated Clinton legally speaking, he provided huge amounts of fodder that could badly hamstring her in the court of public opinion.

Most importantly, Comey said the FBI found 110 emails on Clinton's server that were classified at the time they were sent or received. That stands in direct contradiction to Clinton's repeated insistence she never sent or received any classified emails. And, it even stands in contrast to her amended statement that she never knowingly sent or received any classified information.

Comey condemned Clinton and her top aides as "extremely careless" in how they handled classified information during her time as the head of the State Department, adding: "Any reasonable person … should have known that an unclassified system was no place" for that sort of information.

There was more — much more. Comey said Clinton had used not one but multiple private email servers during her time at State. He said Clinton used multiple email devices during that time. (She had offered her desire to use a single device for "convenience" as the main reason she set up the private server.) He noted that the lawyers tasked by Clinton with sorting her private emails from her professional ones never actually read all of the emails (as the FBI did in the course of its investigation). Comey said that while the FBI found no evidence that Clinton's private server was hacked by foreign governments, it was possible that it had been. He argued that the Clinton lawyers had deleted emails they marked as personal that contained professional content, and that while the FBI found some of those emails in its investigation, it was certainly possible more existed that they were unable to track down.

It's worth remembering at this point that Clinton and her team deleted more emails than they turned over to the State Department.





It's hard to read Comey's statement as anything other than a wholesale rebuke of the story Clinton and her campaign team have been telling ever since the existence of her private email server came to light in spring 2015. She did send and receive classified emails. The setup did leave her — and the classified information on the server — subject to a possible foreign hack. She and her team did delete emails as personal that contained professional information.

Those are facts, facts delivered by the Justice Department of a Democratic administration. And those facts run absolutely counter to the narrative put forth by the Clinton operation: that this whole thing was a Republican witch-hunt pushed by a bored and adversarial media.

Now for the key question: How much do the FBI findings hurt her campaign?

Clinton did avoid indictment, a ruling that would have effectively ended her campaign or left it so badly weakened that there would have been a major move within Democratic circles to replace her as the nominee.

That said, campaigns aren't governed by the ultimate legality of what Clinton did or didn't do. So, while dodging an indictment is a good thing — she isn't under criminal investigation and remains a candidate — it's a far different thing from being cleared (or even close to it) in the court of public opinion.

For a candidate already badly struggling on questions of whether she is honest and trustworthy enough to hold the office to which she aspires, Comey's comments are devastating. Watching them, I could close my eyes and imagine them spliced into a bevy of 30-second ads — all of which end with the FBI director rebuking Clinton as "extremely careless."

The best thing Clinton may have going for her at this point is that Republicans are two weeks away from formally picking Donald Trump as their party's presidential nominee. Trump has shown a unique ability to hog the national spotlight and make comments that make people wonder whether he is fit to be president. While Clinton's image numbers are bad, Trump's are worse.

Still, all things considered, this is a very bad day for the Clinton campaign. It's not the worst outcome (indictment), but it badly disrupts her attempts to move beyond the email server story as she seeks to unite the party in advance of the Democratic convention later this month. And it suggests the email issue will haunt her all the way through Election Day on Nov. 8.

And call me whacky but this will help Trump and his campaign or whatever you want to call it.

Elites vs Everyone Else.

Feeds right into it.

I wish.

And yes, I would take her name.

Tell your people what happened here. Tell them you lived by the grace of her majesty.

Remind them what happened when Hillary Stormborn and her lawyers came to the Justice Department.

Not true.

My wife works with classified info almost daily. She can be charged with a crime if she doesn't follow explicit rules when transferring info by mail, or by email.

I despise Hillary more than anyone, but agree charges are not appropriate.
it should, however, clearly indicate she has no business being POTUS.

Maybe but Trump is your alternative.

Trump responded with a tweet about how the FBI Director was being "very, very unfair" "Unfair"?!?

It's a typical kind of a remark from a high school sophomore. And coming from that inheritance clown who routinely takes advantage of bankruptcy laws, ridiculous.

Not true.

My wife works with classified info almost daily. She can be charged with a crime if she doesn't follow explicit rules when transferring info by mail, or by email.

Nobody said there weren't any rules ... the point the guy was making as I read it is that being a sloppy or aloof asswipe doesn't mean jail time, only willfully and purposefully (and ultimately, in court, provably) sharing it with people not allowed to see it.