“No charges are appropriate in this case”, Comey said in making his announcement. Over the past several months, she has handed over thousands of pages of emails to investigators and responded to a number of government inquiries.
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Donald Trump on Tuesday night repeatedly hammered his message that there is a “rigged system” at work, pointing specifically to the Federal Bureau of Investigation decision to not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of email while serving as secretary of state.
But that was only after he presented a searing description of her “extremely careless” handling of classified information that ensured the matter will not be going away.
More than 100 of the emails sent and received on Clinton’s private server were marked classified at the time.
The FBI began investigating her use of a private email server on a referral from an intelligence community watchdog to ascertain if classified information was transmitted on that system.
Her likely rival in the presidential race Donald Trump was quick to criticise the decision on Twitter.
The president cast the negative impressions of her as a result of her many years in the political spotlight.
He accused Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, of bribing the US attorney general – offering little to back up the dramatic accusation.
“Sometimes we take somebody who’s been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted”, Obama said, as Clinton sat behind him.
Comey said the evidence supports the conclusion that “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters should have know – that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation”. Comey said Clinton used multiple private email servers and email devices as secretary of state, which she had not revealed.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday that the Democratic National Committee will be paying for a portion of the costs in accordance with presidential travel rules.
With Petraeus, the retired general acknowledged in a taped interview that he knew some of the “black book” journals he gave to his mistress, Paula Broadwell, for a book she was writing were “highly classified”, according to court documents. Her transgressions might arguably merit administrative sanctions, he said, but not criminal prosecution. “Secretary Clinton misled the American people when she was confronted with her criminal actions”, House Speaker Paul Ryan hyperventilated. “And that’s why I am so proud, North Carolina, to endorse Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States”. “I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of this organization”.
“I’ll tell you what, Hillary’s never using email again”, Gutfeld said. He obviously relished the chance to go after Trump, ridiculing his lack of coherent policies and his logorrheaic use of social media, and he made a better case for Clinton than she makes for herself.
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Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Hillary Clinton bribed Loretta Lynch by offering her the ability to keep the position of attorney general if she was elected president.
