WaPo Editorial: Clinton was ‘extremely careless.’ That is not a crime, but she must do better...

[DonViejo]

Clinton was ‘extremely careless.’ That is not a crime, but she must do better in the future.

By Editorial Board July 5 at 4:30 PM

FIRST, A shout-out to the investigator: In examining the use of a private email server for official business by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James B. Comey appears to have navigated treacherous waters with the commitment to principle and rule of law that any citizen could wish for. The FBI investigated thoroughly. It came to its conclusion in time for voters to factor it into their deliberations. Mr. Comey leveled with the American people, reporting to them even before reporting to his own bosses.

And the conclusion he came to strikes us as being as sound as the process: Ms. Clinton was “extremely careless,” the FBI director said, but did not engage in the kind of intentional or willful mishandling of classified material that would warrant prosecution.

The director left no doubt of his belief that Ms. Clinton’s use of a private email server was entirely inappropriate for a Cabinet member with access to the nation’s highest-level secrets. Mr. Comey said “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position .?.?. should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.” The Clinton system had virtually no archiving; when servers were swapped out in 2013, “millions of email fragments” wound up being inadvertently tossed into the “slack space” of a decommissioned server. Much will be made by Ms. Clinton’s critics of the finding that eight chains of “top secret” emails were found, as well as several dozen chains of emails at lesser levels of classification; and that work emails were missed by her lawyers in their sorting from the personal; and that thousands of other emails were dislodged by investigators from other people’s accounts.

No doubt an FBI investigation of equal intensity would find carelessness on the part of many other high-ranking officials. But that does not excuse Ms. Clinton’s blithe disregard for procedure. The FBI found no “direct evidence” that Ms. Clinton’s email was hacked by foreign adversaries, Mr. Comey said. But it is worrisome that the FBI believes “hostile actors gained access” to private, commercial email accounts of her interlocutors, and that it is “possible” her emails also fell into hostile hands. China’s and Russia’s known, aggressive cyber snooping may have reaped a rich harvest.

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[MaggieD]

1. Thank you for your concern

LOL!

[think]

2. Something for Democrats to reflect upon...

[MaggieD]

4. Sorry - I'm busy reflecting on the fact that...

... Trump is a xenophobic asshole who is completely unqualified to be president. I don't have time for the latest right wing hit job on the Clintons. Been there done that and it's still bullshit.

[book_worm]

3. Main thing is that it's out and done with now and not a week before the GE

Sure Trump will push it but it's really a non-issue with most people outside the beltway and only arouses Clinton haters.

[OnDoutside]

7. Exactly. Never a good time, but the Convention being after the Nutjob one will give Hillary a big

boost in time for the holidays.

[JoePhilly]

5. Comey flipped over every rock and pebble ...

... and he found nothing.

But he dare not say that. To do so would be to admit failure.

So lacking any real evidence, he decide to audition for a role as a Fox News Political pundit tossing around unsubstantiated allegations and "possibilities" none of which he could back up.

[seabeyond]

6. Her server shows no hacking, others shows hacking. She seems to have protected info better. Nt

[Coyotl]

8. Washington Post. That's all we need to know. Moving on.

[NCTraveler]

9. The most vetted person in the history of the US. No doubt about it. nt.

[Lord Magus]

10. We appreciate WaPo's concern trolling so very much.

And it's cute how they're so worried about it being "possible" that Russia and China hacked into her emails (regardless of there being no evidence whatsoever) but don't even mention that it's a proven certainty that both governments did hack into the official State Dept email server that Hillary declined to use.

[HereSince1628]

11. No doubt though that Comey was extremely careful about the double entendre

Define gross...when it doesn't mean a dozen dozen, it's sort of lot like extremely
Define negligence... it sort of like not caring, wits without care or careless

Put it together and what do you got? Bibbitty bobbeddy boo.

He's intentionally, and with extreme carefullness, handed to the republicans a parallel meaning that will promote the notion that Clinton committed gross negligence and yet avoided all the fallout that would attend him if he had used those words.

This is why FBI directors should be seen more and heard less on such an issue.

[treestar]

12. As President, she will have all the security she needs

and won't have to leave the building to go from home to work.