“At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn’t a prosecutable case”, Comey wrote in an internal memo.
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But at the “Commander in Chief” forum hosted by NBC News, Trump once again praised the Russian leader in comparison to President Barack Obama.
Shannon’s email was addressed to Clinton’s then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, who then forwarded it on to Clinton’s private email address.
Up until now, the State Department has avoided directly answering the question of whether or not Clinton was personally trained in the handling of classified material. Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect Obama’s former secretary of state.
Powell said he had “a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line.so I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers”.
So while Clinton says she recalls no such briefing or training, a State Department publication from 2010, the Diplomatic Security 2009 Year in Review, explicitly states that Secretary Clinton indeed received the training in “the proper handling of sensitive and classified information”. Drew Pinsky who had his television show cancelled after he expressed concerns that Clinton might be suffering from brain damage. Asked to square his request for military options with that criticism, Trump said simply: “They’ll probably be different generals”.
Those documents included a summary of Clinton’s July interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation about her private email server, as well as a detailed investigative summary of the case. Comey said last July that he had no basis to find that the deletions of Clinton’s emails were aimed at concealing evidence.
Here was his response to her email asking for help. “So I take nothing for granted”, Clinton said. “We have to move on from this”, she said.
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But Clinton defended certain emails, including information about the country’s covert drone program, as not revealing classified information. We’ve gotta help people now serving not to feel that if they report their sense of unease, their depression, that somehow it’s gonna be a mark against them.
