Hillary Clinton should not face charges in connection to her use of a private email server, FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday.
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While saying Clinton’s actions were “extremely careless” and risked letting classified information fall into enemy hands, FBI Director James Comey said his agency’s investigation found no evidence Clinton and her staff meant to violate secrecy laws and that “no reasonable prosecutor” would file charges. As Chris Cillizza pointed out in The Washington Post, much of the information Comey released on Tuesday contradicted Clinton’s previous statements, including the one where she claimed that none of the emails she sent had been classified at the time.
The FBI’s assessment, which found that Clinton was “extremely careless” in sending classified information via her personal email account, was far from the complete exoneration she had hoped for as she rallied Democrats in her showdown with Republican Donald Trump.
Comey said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation didn’t find enough evidence to show that she intentionally mishandled the classified information, but did slide a little commentary in about how she was “extremely careless” with it.
Ryan’s comments were a response to Tuesday’s announcement by FBI Director James Comey that while Clinton and her aides were extremely reckless in handling highly classified government information.
“She provided the State Department with all work and potentially work-related emails that she had”, according to her campaign website.
Hillary Clinton and her campaign just want the private email server scandal to go away. Even if what she did was not criminal, anyone in the position of secretary of state should know what documents are classified and which are not – even if they are not marked as such.
He went after Clinton at length for the FBI’s decision, and charged his November 8 rival “can’t keep her email safe” and therefore “can’t keep our country safe”.
Separately, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said that Attorney General Loretta Lynch would appear next week, on July 12, for a previously scheduled hearing that will include questions about the FBI investigation, as well as Lynch’s controversial impromptu meeting with former President Bill Clinton last week.
“We may have gone toe-to-toe from coast-to-coast”, Obama said.
“I don’t think there’s a way that Clinton can use this to raise anger at Republicans”, said Andy Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
THE FACTS: Comey did not address Clinton’s reason for using a private server instead of a government one, but he highlighted the perils in routing sensitive information through a home server.
Trump hit back, calling Obama’s return to the campaign trail “a carnival act” and derided him as a president “who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing”.
Another House Republican, Paul Gosar of Arizona, tweeted a cartoon of a Monopoly “Get out of jail free” card showing a winged Clinton flying out of a cage labeled “FBI”. But she did admit that if given another chance, she would not have met with the former president. But she quickly acknowledged that mixing official State Department business with personal emails was “a mistake”.
Noah said that Democrats’ relief that Clinton will likely not be indicted is a testament to what an unconventional election cycle 2016 has turned out to be.
While Brezler said she never thought there would actually be an indictment, she was saddened at the news.
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A Reuters/Ipsos poll from May 1-11 found that a majority of American adults do not think Clinton is an honest person.
