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To: plain talk
-- You raise an interesting point. I believe this was the main subjective rationale used to avoid prosecution. --

I've been pointing out Comey's duplicity in this. There are "grades" of classified material mishandling, just as there are "grades" of homicide. 793(f) is like 2nd degree murder. Comey talked about the facts not adding up to a 793(f) violation. He talked about that at length. But he also admitted the classified materials were in the wild, a "dead body" if we were talking homicide.

Now, most people are aware that a person who kills another is not necessarily guilty of murder. They can be justified in the killing, or they can be guilty of manslaughter. Manslaughter doesn't require intent to kill, and a violation of classified material law doesn't require intent to give away or even expose secrets. It is enough that the classified material be "out of its secure location."

Enter 18 USC 1924(a), a person who "knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location" commits a violation.

This is the "manslaughter" variety of classified materials violation. Hillary is guilty of at least this.

102 posted on 07/05/2016 11:40:08 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Yes. Well stated.


119 posted on 07/05/2016 12:18:57 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Cboldt

Not only has Comey proved himself a dishonest weasel, but he openly took the heat off Lynch and the DOJ by asserting so recklessly that “no reasonable prosecutor” would indict.... when we have already found an obvious example of just such a prosecution by our DOJ:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3446483/posts


124 posted on 07/05/2016 12:48:48 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Still not indicted, suckas! Laws are for peasants!")
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