Bullshit back to you. I never mentioned an arrest, that was however what most in the right wing nutty sphere were given as food (and it was bullshit indeed) and instead of demanding better from the sources of info you consume you send disapproval to someone telling you how wrong they were on this message board.
An indictment would had been a very serious talking point to use till the end of time. Being accused of a crime would had been very bad indeed for the presidential run.
As others pointed out, those were rule violations, not a crime unless you could demonstrate that was made with the intention to undermine national security. And then many of the rules that many right wing sources of misinformation used were post facto rules. Very little wonder that Comey pointed out that no prosecutor would recommend a conviction.
What I do speculate is that Comley had to be as harsh as possible with Hillary as there would not be a conviction, unfortunately the Republicans admited that that was not good enough. As I pointed elsewhere that “not good enough” is an admission that they did not got what they needed to undermine Clinton in the general election.
So now they are stuck with Mr. “National Enquirer is a serious paper” Donald Trump as their presidential candidate with no good talking points to make the fight more even.
When Loretta Lynch said that she would follow the recommendations of the FBI and career prosecutors she was not signaling that she would defer to their judgement as the public saw her message to be saying, she was sending a very clear signal to them about their jobs.
Career was not some term of respect for the experience of the prosecutors, the word was in the statement so that they all would think about their jobs before issuing the recommendations.
Very clear, very clever, very Clinton, very politics.
Side note, if I were a black person and my family name was Lynch, I would be changing that shit.
Right, and Comey is a dishonorable man who would never put making correct and honorable judgment ahead of keeping a public service job when given such a vague signal, when he could make millions in the private sector and as a lobbyist.
Yes, you were expecting only an indictment, since you can’t hope to win the election by actual persuasion.
You think they’re crimes only because you know she’s a criminal, therefore everything she does must be a crime and it only takes enough balls to file the paperwork - that’s the **Clothy **view. The **adaher **corollary is that we know she’s a criminal because she keeps getting accuse of criminality. The real world knows you’re living in a House of Mirrors.
As an IT professional working in the electric industry, if one of our employees were caught emailing sensitive data (we have tons of it) to an insecure server, they’d be fired immediately and the company would probably be fined upwards of a million dollars. I don’t believe that there would be any actual criminal charges unless it was shown that the data was intentionally sent to a 3rd party such as Russia or North Korea. In that case, the FBI would be on our asses like white on rice.
I presume that this amazing insight is due to your possession of the Secret Decoder Ring that only Loretta and her career prosecutors are supposed to have. We look forward to more of your amazing blockbuster revelations. Do you also have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Director Comey explains why there will be no indictment. He says that since the FBI was created, in 1917, only once has there ever been a prosecution for gross negligence, and he disagreed with the prosecution in that case. He claimed that to now go after Hillary when they never went after anybody else would be celebrity hunting.
My work has lots of sensitive data also, and people read it on their non-work phones all the time. (Private phones.) Our information protection class has guidelines but they do not include never reading your sensitive mail on a mobile device.
There are levels of security - there are some levels where this could get you into trouble. But the equivalent of classified is not one. And it is not a firing offense.
It occurs to me that the president isn’t permitted to have his own mobile device. All the devices at his disposal are gov’t issued and secure. Therefore, I think we should punish Hillary by making the next president, thus ensuring she cannot mishandle confidential information. That’ll learn 'er!
