What do you take away from the fact that she was never asked to give a sworn statement (i.e. under oath) ?
take a read here...
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press ... ail-systemSome fun excerpts
"Objectives"
fbi.gov wrote:
Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.
Consistent with our counterintelligence responsibilities, we have also investigated to determine whether there is evidence of computer intrusion in connection with the personal e-mail server by any foreign power, or other hostile actors
This is a good one. Based on this, I'm fairly certain the FBI has no real idea exactly what happened on those servers, considering some of them were 'disposed' of. There are honestly a lot more questions than answers here. Who disposed of them, and how? Who were the administrators, and what were their security clearances? I worked around classified military information for 20 years, including TS/SCI and SA, and you couldn't even get into a room where those servers were, let along be an user or administrator on one without a TS clearance.
fbi.gov wrote:
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain. As new servers and equipment were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored, and decommissioned in various ways.
fbi.gov wrote:
It is also likely that there are other work-related e-mails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all e-mails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
This one is pure comedy gold...
fbi.gov wrote:
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
Especially considering the very next paragraph basically says she should have known (duh?)...
fbi.gov wrote:
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a 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 known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that is, excluding the later “up-classified” e-mails).
None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail.
Yup, the FBI basically said your Gmail is more secure that the Secretary of States email server. This doesn't make me feel so great ....
fbi.gov wrote:
Separately, it is important to say something about the marking of classified information. Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked “classified” in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.
While not the focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified e-mail systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information found elsewhere in the government.
This is/was Hillarys organi'zation. Even if you want to play word games with the laws as written, you can't take exception to the fact that SHE should be held accountable for the "lack of care" for handling classified information.
I'll say this again. She wasn't in charge of parking tickets or state parks!. She was the SECRETARY OF FREAKIN' STATE!
I've seen it reported numerous times that the servers were not hacked. The fact is, even the FBI admitted, they have NO FREAKING IDEA if they were hacked or not. They very well could have been.
And lots more "Gross Negligence" described here.
Again, this is the FBI report that was used to recommend *not* attempting prosecution. Not some right wing blog twisting words to their whim.
fbi.gov wrote:
With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.
The remaining seven or eight paragraphs are used to try to justify not recommending a trial.
If you think that the FBI's recommendation, and the AG subsequently following them, is not politics at it's worst, I'd hate to see what you think of as stinky, rotten, politics.
If this had happened under the responsibility of ANY other person on planet earth, they would be going to jail. There is NO question about this. She was promised this election 4 (or 8) years ago, and she's going to get it.
I'm no fan of Donald Trump, and detest the idea that he's being considered for President of the United States, but that possibility IS NOT WORSE than electing Hillary Clinton.