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FBI Director James Comey --

“This is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.”

Remember when he claimed, "I don't care a whit about politics"?

Bulls**t.

Comey also said, "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,"

This too, is a lie. The explicit purpose of utilizing a private server (make that multiple private servers) was to circumvent the law -- Clinton had them set up to hide, and destroy when it suited her, material which, by law was government property.

In order to conceal the Clinton Foundation's illicit quid pro quo dealings with foreign governments, Hillary Clinton,

Illegally operated an insecure personal server in managing her government business;
Was grossly negligent in handling classified material (18 U.S. Code, §793-f)*, including more than a hundred emails classified at the time of handling;
Personally possessed classified material (18 U.S. Code §1924)**;
Withheld evidence;
Destroyed evidence;
Endangered national security (18 U.S. Code §798)***;
Set herself up to be blackmailed by the Russians, the Chinese and/or the Iranians;
Repeatedly lied about her actions and their motivations,

and will become the next President of the United States.
             

*Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

**1)  a)

Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(b)

For purposes of this section, the provision of documents and materials to the Congress shall not constitute an offense under subsection (a).

(c)

In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.

*** (a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—                   

(1)

concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or

(2)

concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or

(3)

concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or

(4)

obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Kurt Schlister (Written before James Comey's statement today) --

The idea of the rule of law today is a lie. There is no law. There is no justice. There are only lies.

Hillary Clinton is manifestly guilty of multiple felonies. Her fans deny it half-heartedly, but mostly out of habit – in the end, it’s fine with them if she’s a felon. They don’t care. It’s just some law. What’s the big deal? It doesn’t matter that anyone else would be in jail right now for doing a fraction of what she did. But the law is not important. Justice is not important.

http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2016/07/04/you-owe-them-nothing--not-respect-not-loyalty-not-obedience-n2186865

Good analyses of Comey's disgraceful decision from Ben Shapiro:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7177/fbi-yes-queen-hillary-broke-law-no-she-wont-be-ben-shapiro

...And from Austin Bay:

http://observer.com/2016/07/james-comey-sells-out/

...And from David French:

Tuesday morning, FBI Director James Comey stepped up to a podium and calmly and methodically demolished every single Hillary Clinton lie, spin, and evasion regarding her misuse of classified information. Months of deception blew up in her face.

And then Comey decided to make her president of the United States.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437485/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-james-comey-turn-america-banana-republic

FREE BRIAN H. NISHIMURA!! -- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-05/peak-fbi-corruption-meet-bryan-nishimura-found-guilty-removal-and-retention-classifi

Jay Cost (tweet) --

FFS somebody has got to jump into this F*CKING race. We can't be stuck with these two awful human beings.

Updates, July 6 --

WSJ Editorial --

We almost wish Mr. Comey had avoided his self-justifying, have-it-both-ways statement and said bluntly that he couldn’t indict Mrs. Clinton because the country must be spared a Donald Trump Presidency. It would have been more honest and less corrosive to democracy than his Clinton Standard.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/jim-comeys-clinton-standard-1467759942

The Washington Examiner lists the 14 most damaging things Comey said about Clinton's e-mails. --

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-14-most-damaging-things-said-about-clintons-emails-at-the-fbi-press-briefing/article/2595620

Ben Shapiro on why the Democrats get away with it. --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437509/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-proves-political-corruption

Jon Gabriel --

Traitor Edward Snowden is hiding out in Russia for compromising state secrets. Democratic nominee Hillary is favored to be our next President. Chelsea Manning is three years into a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified government documents. Hillary Clinton is holding campaign rallies with Barack Obama. Petty Officer 1st Class Kristian Saucier is awaiting a sentence of up to 30 years for taking a few snapshots on a US Navy sub. Hillary is choosing furniture for the Oval Office.

When I was a student in the Navy Nuclear Power Program, one of my classmates decided to take a couple basic engineering textbooks to his off-base house to study. Since they were related to a sensitive military program, the books were marked “confidential,” the lowest classification level available. Once the violation was discovered, he saw his home raided, was immediately removed from the program, tossed into the brig, and prosecuted. Mishandling classified material is a deadly serious matter, even if the material focuses on diodes and resistors instead of troop movements and intelligence gathering. Or at least it used to be.

https://ricochet.com/hillary-clinton-too-big-to-jail/

Alana Goodman (Washington Free Beacon) --

“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,” said Comey.

...Joseph diGenova, former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, called Comey’s statements an “absurdity in light of the conclusions that [the FBI] reached.”

“How can he spend 15 minutes describing a series of crimes being committed … and then he says no reasonable prosecutor [would prosecute]?” said diGenova. “That is ridiculous. I consider myself a reasonable prosecutor and I would have brought charges based on the facts that he accumulated.”

...“The standard under the statute is gross negligence. [Comey] described the conduct as ‘extremely careless,’” said diGenova. “To me that is worse. His conclusion that no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges is completely inconsistent with his recitation of the facts and the law.”

http://freebeacon.com/issues/ex-u-s-prosecutors-fbis-clinton-press-conference-absolutely-bizarre/

A couple of lawyerly assessments of Comey's disgraceful performance --

Shannen Coffin -- http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437493/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-fbi-director-comey-built-strong-case-decided-against

Andrew McCarthy -- http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook

Even the Associated Press, a left wing mouthpiece of the left wing mainstream media, agrees that Clinton is a damn liar. --

http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-email-fact-check-2016-7

An optimistic view by Kevin Williamson --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437507/2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-elites-aristocrats-nobility