
FBI Director James Comey said Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State was “extremely careless” but he is not recommending criminal charges.
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In a press conference Tuesday, Comey said Clinton used “several” different email servers while Secretary of State and from a group of about 30,000 emails, 110 contained classified data at the time they were sent or received.
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Still he said there was no evidence that Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate the laws, merely that it was “extremely careless.” He also said there is no direct evidence that Clinton’s personal email domain was hacked. It was possible CNBC reports, that “hostile actors” gained access. “Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” he said.
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FBI Director James Comey says Clinton used "several different servers" during time in office. Required "painstaking" process to put together
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Comey is forwarding the case to the Justice Department, but is recommending no charges be filed.
Not facing criminal charges doesn’t mean Hillary Clinton is out of the woods, though. There will always be speculation that her husband’s 30-minute meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch might have tipped the scales in her favor, and while this report recommends no prosecution, it is still damning in its analysis of how careless Clinton was with classified intelligence.
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