Obama was in a bind.
If he had asserted Executive Privilege regarding he and Clinton’s email exchanges through her private server, then it is a tacit admission that classified information was sent. Both have denied that classified information was sent or received.
If he had turned over the emails, it would have been proven beyond a doubt that classified information was sent.
That’s why the server had to be wiped and the hard drives and mobile devices destroyed. I’m sure that Obama’s bb from the time in question has also been destroyed and replaced with a clean one.
I think what they were hiding was that classified information was sent outside secure government channels and Obama knew about it.
Comey found that it definitely was and why she was not charged for that is a matter of speculation, but the most obvious reason is that he was told DOJ would not bring a case against her. The reason DOJ could not bring a case against her is that in the discovery phase, it would be found that Obama knew that she was breaking the law and he was also in possession of classified information she sent outside government channels. That would be an impeachable offense.
Good points and I will take it a step further.
The “limited hangout” here is that we are only discussing the fact that “ classified information” was sent/received— not the nature of the information itself. Remember, this all centered around the Benghazi matter. While know that serious laws were violated, the public may never know the actual content of those conversations as they are no longer part of the public archives.