I would have thought the sarcasm was dripping from my statement like honey from a comb.
I was just trying to help folks understand a little nuance in the word intent as used to prove violations of statutes.
The agents and prosecutors that prepare the affidavits to present to judges seeking warrants to arrest and/or search must get probable cause and intent into their narratives.
A trick I learned was to think - Scienter defined as Guilty knowledge that is sufficient to charge a person with the consequences of his or her acts. ... The term often is used interchangeably with Mens Rea, which describes criminal intent, but scienter has a broader application because it also describes knowledge required to assign liability in many civil cases.
What little I know shows me that HRC met the elements of scienter when she asked that headers be stripped from classified documents and had them sent via unsecure email. Former Director Comey proved to a lot of us that he was ignorant of the basics of putting a prosecutable case together when he tried to convince a nation that HRC deserved a pass. Her actions reeked of Guilty Knowledge and any prosecutor worth his salt would have had no trouble selling a jury on that fact.
Instead, the facts show that Comey and others had a bias that HRC was destined to be president and we all need to look aside and let her pass. That is bias.