We knew this was coming. Obama & Biden would’t be campaigning for her if the feds weren’t going to already clear her. Via the UK’s Daily Mail:
FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that the FBI will not recommend federal prosecution of Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server to store what turned out to be thousands of classified documents in her emails.
The U.S. Justice Department has the final say, but Attorney General Loretta Lynch said last week that she ‘fully expects’ to act on whatever the FBI recommends. The FBI doesn’t expect any criminal charges to result, Comey said.
‘We are expressing to the Department of Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case,’ he said.
‘In looking back into our investigations into the mishandling or the removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.’
Comey’s conclusion, which he insisted no politician in the Obama administration was aware of in advance, amounted to a declaration that Clinton and her aides were ‘extremely careless’ with their handling of classified material, but their actions did not rise to the level of a prosecution.
‘None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system,’ Comey said.
‘Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges.’
Comey said 110 emails in 52 email chains found on Clinton’s server contained information that was classified at the time they were sent or received.
That contradicts Clinton’s early mantra that nothing was classified when it hit her server.
He also said it was possible that hackers aligned with foreign governments gained access to her server – and that some did hack into email accounts owned by people she traded messages with.
‘We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account,’ Comey explained.
The negligence Comey outlined in his statement to reporters could have been enough to result in a criminal prosecution.
But Clinton’s conduct amounted to mere sloppiness, he said.
Just what we need: a sloppy President.
You also have to wonder if any other government employee had done what she has done, if they would be given a “by” by the FBI…