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originally posted by: WhateverYouSay
a reply to: EternalShadow
Trump's definitely not a sociopath. Nope, not at all.
originally posted by: soekvg
Why can't we all rise up UNITED and demand people like this be thrown from power?
You do realize we are having a national election for these very reasons right? That's the point of them. To throw people we are unhappy with out of power.
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
originally posted by: BIGPoJo
a reply to: DeathSlayer
Comey literally said she broke the law over and over, then he said no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges...
originally posted by: WhateverYouSay
a reply to: EternalShadow
Oh don't get me wrong, I think she is as well. But members here that are pretending like he's the answer to her sociopathy are very mistaken.
1. "Extremely careless"
"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."
2. "Should have known"
"There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position, or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about those matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation."
3. "Especially concerning"
"None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at agencies and departments of the United States government -- or even with a commercial email service like Gmail."
4. "Still obligated to protect it"
"Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. 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."
5. "Generally lacking"
While not the focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information that is found elsewhere in the government.
6. "Hostile actors"
"We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton's use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent."
7. "Sophisticated adversaries"
"She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal email account."
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: interupt42
I said that? Oh no wait, the other thing. You just put words in my mouth. Good job, you are arguing with yourself and not me.
You do realize we are having a national election for these very reasons right? That's the point of them. To throw people we are unhappy with out of power.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
(A) What's the worst case scenario you can 'realistically' imagine, going forward to March 2017?
(B) What's the best case scenario (for the people and the Republic) you can 'realistically' imagine going forward to March 2017?
(C) What do you think is MOST LIKELY to play out between now and March 2017?
8. Should be subject to security or administrative sanctions:
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.
9. Above the law: yeah we found evidence for potential violations but why go anyfurther?
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.