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ANALYSIS: No, Hillary Clinton Did Not Commit a Crime ... at Least Based on What We Know Today
ABC News ^ | February 1, 2016 | Dan Abrams

Posted on 02/01/2016 2:44:25 AM PST by Zakeet

It's critical to start by separating foolish and even potentially shady behavior from criminal. It should be clear to any objective observer that it was an enormous error for Clinton to use a homemade server for all of her emails while she was in a position that regularly handles and assesses the most sensitive of government secrets. She had admitted as much (although now she appears to be backtracking from that initial mea culpa).

It is also indisputable that it was neither a crime nor even a violation of State Department procedure for Clinton to have used personal email for government business at that time. Secretary of State Colin Powell, for example, used a personal email account from 2001 to 2005 in addition to his government account.

What makes this different, however, is that she created and maintained her own server in her home, and therefore controlled, all her emails, personal and professional.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016electionbias; abcdisneynews; corruption; courts; crime; cultureofcorruption; danabrams; dnctalkingpoints; hack; hillary
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... best media mouthpiece since Geraldo Riveria!

1 posted on 02/01/2016 2:44:25 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

An uninformed reporter who reads only handouts from the Hillary campaign.


2 posted on 02/01/2016 2:50:18 AM PST by plangent
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To: Zakeet

Cherry-picked obfuscational mumbo jumbo around why her server, her gross neglect and ordering subordinates to improperly and illegally remove classified marking headings and transmit unclassified is not ‘criminal’.

Any other citizen would already be serving out a sentence.


3 posted on 02/01/2016 2:55:06 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Zakeet

150 FBI agents may think differently.


4 posted on 02/01/2016 2:56:53 AM PST by Hang'emAll (If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
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To: plangent

He should no better, considering he has a law degree and given his work history covering all things legal and governmental affairs etc. He is just being a “good” lib.


5 posted on 02/01/2016 2:59:38 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Zakeet

She’s committee high treason pure and simple. We’re not talking only criminal acts here, but some along the scale of the Rosenberg treason.


6 posted on 02/01/2016 3:00:01 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: PghBaldy

no = know


7 posted on 02/01/2016 3:00:06 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Zakeet

For good old Dan and the “ends justifies the means” party foolish and shady behavior is just okie dokie for a President.


8 posted on 02/01/2016 3:03:30 AM PST by DAC21 (.z)
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To: Zakeet

Dan Abrams! LOL! Media Doofus!


9 posted on 02/01/2016 3:03:43 AM PST by smoothsailing
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It is also indisputable that it was neither a crime nor even a violation of State Department procedure

It's indisputable, I tell ya. It's settled law and there's a consensus.

10 posted on 02/01/2016 3:04:10 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Zakeet

This “is also indisputable” BS from Dan Abrams.


11 posted on 02/01/2016 3:04:58 AM PST by Balata
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To: Hang'emAll

Lots of traitors in the FBI too. I wouldn’t pin my hopes on them either.


12 posted on 02/01/2016 3:05:22 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Zakeet

What he says amounts to: She has not been convicted in a court of law, so she has not committed a crime, yet, that we know of.

He does not once mention that the leaks point toward numerous crimes, and his claim that we have not seen many prosecutions for this sort of behavior is whistling past the graveyard.

The main point that he seems to be making is that Hillary made a mistake because she got caught.


13 posted on 02/01/2016 3:08:47 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Zakeet

ABC = Always Backing Clinton


14 posted on 02/01/2016 3:10:58 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: marktwain

Dear Dan: if she’s innocent why is her alibi constantly changing?


15 posted on 02/01/2016 3:13:53 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Colorado Doug
“Indisputable.” One of them fancy important words used to impress the hicks in flyover country.
16 posted on 02/01/2016 3:14:50 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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So chugging all that vodka and running naked through Walmart was foolish and therefore not criminal? Really Dan? We can separate “Foolish” from “Criminal”? Now people can choose between “Guilty” “Not Guilty” and “Foolish” That should decrease the prison population.


17 posted on 02/01/2016 3:16:16 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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Dear Dan: if she’s innocent why has her team systematically destroyed multiple pieces of evidence: servers, phones, documents?

Why is her IT provider pleading the 5th?


18 posted on 02/01/2016 3:16:36 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Zakeet

She’s actually trying to say that, as Secretary of State, she never once received classified information on her unsecured, illegal server. Asking her questions about this position is somehow unserious and abusive.

I always thought she was a communist. Now I think another “C” word applies.


19 posted on 02/01/2016 3:21:00 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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ANALYSIS: No, Hillary Clinton Did Not Commit a Crime ... at Least Based on What We Know Today

Actually kneepad boy is correct. She did not commit a crime. He is 100% correct. What he failed to point out is she has committed over 1000 felonies as of last count. Each email that was classified is a separate crime.

20 posted on 02/01/2016 3:26:41 AM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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