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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: BO XIAN
Uh huh... No wonder why you seem to think the country is going into the toilet. You've convinced yourself not to do anything. In other words you've already defeated yourself. Oh well. Your loss.
By the way, I will continue to be perfectly happy in this country living my life. Hillary being arrested or not isn't going to make my life any worse or better. The verdict is in, and I'm content with letting it go. It's a shame you and your right leaning cohorts probably won't be letting it go for the foreseeable future and I expect many tax dollars to be wasted on future investigations that will turn up nothing.
originally posted by: BlueAjah
I hope there is a firestorm of demonstrations at her campaign stops.
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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: interupt42
Is that what it means? Wow. Thanks for doing my thinking for me. I'm glad you are here to translate my thoughts to "what they really mean" for me. What would I do without you and your keen insight?
PS: This was 100% sarcasm if you couldn't tell.
originally posted by: MysticPearl
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: BO XIAN
Uh huh... No wonder why you seem to think the country is going into the toilet. You've convinced yourself not to do anything. In other words you've already defeated yourself. Oh well. Your loss.
By the way, I will continue to be perfectly happy in this country living my life. Hillary being arrested or not isn't going to make my life any worse or better. The verdict is in, and I'm content with letting it go. It's a shame you and your right leaning cohorts probably won't be letting it go for the foreseeable future and I expect many tax dollars to be wasted on future investigations that will turn up nothing.
Good thing our forefather didn't think like you.
Actually, no one who ever did anything great thought like you. But the elite do need their sheep who can sit back in the comfort of their homes and not care.
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: interupt42
a reply to: BlueAjah
Missed the bigger two:
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.
Of the 30,000 personal-server emails turned over by Clinton’s lawyers to the State Department, 110 individual messages and 52 email chains contained some level of classified information. Of those 52 email chains, eight contained information classified at the highest level, “top secret,” at the time they were sent. Another 36 email chains were classified at the “secret” level, while eight more were classified “confidential,” the lowest level. In addition to the emails that were classified at the time, 2,000 more emails that were not classified at the time of sending were later up-classified by government departments and agencies.
Comey said decisions to file charges in previous similar cases have been based on some combination of three factors: intentional mishandling of classified information, large quantities of classified information exposed in such a way to suggest intentional wrongdoing and “indications of disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice.” Because the bureau found no evidence of those factors, Comey said, the FBI recommended against filing charges against Clinton. Comey was careful to indicate that Clinton's use of a personal server could still merit "security or administrative" consequences, but said that such lesser sanctions were not the focus of the FBI's investigation.
originally posted by: MrSpad
originally posted by: Snarl
originally posted by: MrSpad
As I have been saying all along and as anybody who has been a part of the intel community and seen these things before it was pretty clear their would be no charges and at most a misdemeanor. Once you take politics out of it and have any knowledge of such things this is exactly what was expected. Although most such investigations are not so long and thorough.
In the Intel community, an infraction of this sort would result in the permanent revocation of eligibility for a position of trust and responsibility with the United States government.
P e r m a n e n t.
There's a lack of 'fair' in there somewhere.
No it would not. Temporary perhaps. A letter of reprimand maybe. A suspension maybe. Being retrained in the rules and regulations certainly.
originally posted by: JetBlackStare
originally posted by: Snarl
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: Snarl
originally posted by: MrSpad
As I have been saying all along and as anybody who has been a part of the intel community and seen these things before it was pretty clear their would be no charges and at most a misdemeanor. Once you take politics out of it and have any knowledge of such things this is exactly what was expected. Although most such investigations are not so long and thorough.
In the Intel community, an infraction of this sort would result in the permanent revocation of eligibility for a position of trust and responsibility with the United States government.
P e r m a n e n t.
There's a lack of 'fair' in there somewhere.
80% of infractions like this are never prosecuted.
I don't think there's ever been an infraction similar to this one.
However, I agree that 'prosecutions' for compromise of classified materials are rare indeed. They're almost exclusively reserved for those events deemed espionage.
Hey, I'd have been happy if she received the same level of censure as Petraeus.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: Krazysh0t
That depends on Who wrote the script.