Quote:The part about not being criminally so has more to do with her position as a high level politician than anything else IMO. But I agree with the findings. Comey is well known to be honest, so unless he has turned a different way this is probably what happened. However, if she had been some lower level assistant, she would have been fired and lost security clearance long ago.

Secretary Clinton is currently not employed by the federal government, so she can't have her clearance revoked as punishment.  I don't honestly know if any of the staff that put the server together are either, but if they are, then there should be some kind of reprimand to make sure this doesn't happen again.  There will certainly be a contingent that will say that she should never been given a clearance again, and is thus disqualified from holding federal public office.  It's a discussion worth having, and I'm sure we're going to have it.

 

Comey went through great pains to explain just HOW dumb this particular mistake was, and did so before he explained that he didn't believe a prosecutor could win the case.  I honestly believe he did that not to build suspense in the political theater, but so the cameras wouldn't cut away early and lose his message.

 

We're gonna hear Comey's words a lot in the coming months.

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