Some people 47 ABC spoke to in Salisbury said the FBI’s recommendations will push some reluctant supporters fully into the Clinton column.
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Ryan said the FBI’s decision not to recommend charges “underscores the belief that the Clintons live above the law”.
Comey said Clinton’s case lacked evidence of a “clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information”, as had been seen in prior cases where charges were brought.
For the first time since becoming the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton was joined by President Obama on the campaign trail Tuesday in Charlotte. “General [David] Petraeus got in trouble for far less. Very very unfair! As usual, bad judgment”. “One for the well-off, the people well connected, and the rest of us”, Johnson said. “In a nation where the rule of law is supposed to matter, this is troubling”.
“That’s not for James Comey to say, he presents the evidence”, said Scavo, explaining that charges, if any, would be brought by the Justice Department.
Clinton and Obama stepped off the presidential aircraft together-a potent political symbol that drew swift condemnation from Clinton’s Republican rival, Donald Trump. All indications are that decision will be accepted.
Trump, who polls show faces an uphill battle against Clinton in November, has repeatedly stressed that Clinton has sought to mask her involvement in illegal activity by deleting more than 30,000 emails she claimed were personal and not related to her job as top U.S. diplomat.
“I fully expect to accept their recommendations”, Lynch said at an appearance last Friday in Aspen. Comey makes clear this is a no-doubter for him. “I think we need to know more, quite frankly”.
“It was like removing the frame from a huge jigsaw puzzle and then dumping all the pieces on the floor….”
“We have a rigged system, folks”, he added. Eight of those chains contained “top secret” information, the highest level of government classification for material that could harm national security.
The controversy surrounding Clinton’s email practices again burst into public view in August 2015 after the inspector general for the intelligence community revealed that two of the thousands of emails held by Clinton contained top-secret information. That latter clause – “grossly negligent” – is what winds up being the term of art in this particular case, because it’s the standard Comey doesn’t think a “reasonable prosecutor” could say Clinton violated.
Comey has in the first place defended the FBI investigation as being done “honestly, competently and independently”.
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“Hillary Clinton didn’t accidentally sneak into the FBI during one of the country’s biggest holiday weekends to testify on her illegal activities, something that wouldn’t be afforded to others under investigation (and on a Saturday of all days)”, he said.
