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Investigators: Scant evidence Clinton had malicious intent in handling of emails
Washington Post ^ | May 5, 2016 | Matt Zapotosky

Posted on 05/05/2016 8:17:51 PM PDT by Fasceto

Prosecutors and FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server have so far found scant evidence that the leading Democratic presidential candidate intended to break classification rules, though they are still probing the case aggressively with an eye on interviewing Clinton herself, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

FBI agents on the case have been joined by federal prosecutors from the same office that successfully prosecuted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui — and who would handle any Edward Snowden case, should he ever return to the country, according to the U.S. officials familiar with the matter. And in recent weeks, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia and their FBI counterparts have been interviewing top Clinton aides as they seek to bring the case to a close.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Fasceto

Her itnent was to bypass normal proceedures and have a hoem computer with top secret information on it in an un-secured manner- endangering America- Her INTENT was NOT to follow the rules- KNowingly puttign classified informaiton at risk-

How the hell can they suggest otherwise?


141 posted on 05/06/2016 12:09:39 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: tinyowl

Negligent Homicide also does not carry malicious intent, but it is a felony and you go to jail, and you sure as hell are not fit to be president.


Exactly right. Someone can be sick or depressed or drink too much and kill someone with their car. It is manslaughter and off to jail. Same with being in charge of important information which is supposed to safeguard a country.

A manslaughter driving conviction would never allow one to be a bus driver and mishandling of classified server information should never allow one to be president.


142 posted on 05/06/2016 12:32:17 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Fasceto

I don’t think only that applies. The fact they were miss handled by Hillary after her original briefing rises to criminal status from what I remember.


143 posted on 05/06/2016 12:38:57 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Fasceto

Her intent was clearly to evade public disclosure laws, not malice, and there is no need even to prove her real motive. The outcome though was obvious. Anyone in the business who didn’t think to hack her server would by now have been either fired or executed.

Malice is not a requirement for prosecution on this crime. I knew several people who “merely” mishandled Top Secret material who were prosecuted and imprisoned for the crime. It’s Hillary, so the rules don’t apply, but if she were a real person she’d already have been convicted.


144 posted on 05/06/2016 3:25:24 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Fasceto
Part of 18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information (bolding is mine):

"(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."

145 posted on 05/06/2016 3:34:31 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: Fasceto

Just so much horse shit.
Intent has NO bearing.
I didn’t mean to kill him, just beat hell out of him.
Still going to jail for murder regardless.
Bitch Hill should already be behind bars.
Were it you or i we would be.


146 posted on 05/06/2016 3:36:04 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (500 years ago we had Shakesphere, obammys people live in mud huts still. Go figure)
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To: Fasceto
I see you were zotted for your defense of Hillary.


147 posted on 05/06/2016 3:40:17 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: Fasceto
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing probe. An FBI spokesman and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment.

These unnamed "US officials" probably spoke on the condition of anonymity because they have no clue whatsoever how the probe is actually going and they're trying to "try the case in the court of public opinion".

That isn't going to happen and if you're too chickenshit to come out on the record, closeted "Shrillary!" supporter, don't expect me to believe you.

148 posted on 05/06/2016 3:40:58 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: BenLurkin

No, the law does not so require. Did Gen Petraeus have malice and intent to harm the country? Hell no!


149 posted on 05/06/2016 3:42:01 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Fasceto

Intent has no baring on the law.

Jim Snowden could say his intent in teleasing all his top secret info was not to hurt the US, well okay then here’s your pass.


150 posted on 05/06/2016 3:46:27 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: Fasceto

so is avoiding FOIA malicious? I’d say so.


151 posted on 05/06/2016 4:47:07 AM PDT by GotMojo
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To: kaehurowing

“She lied to investigators etc about her emails ...”

Is that not a crime?


152 posted on 05/06/2016 5:00:50 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Fasceto

The statute in question has NO PART that mentions intent.

Mishandling of classified material is a felony (IIRC) no matter if it is intentional or not.

And putting classified material in an “open” system speaks volumes about intent to commit espionage, IMO.


153 posted on 05/06/2016 5:03:41 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: Fasceto

What the hell has intent got to do with it. A person running a clearly-posted stop sign and killing a family in a subsequent car wreck didn’t have intent. So “not guilty?” Total disregard for the law and personal negligence are in play here, not intent.


154 posted on 05/06/2016 5:13:19 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Fasceto

Incorrect.

First, the statute does not require intent. Mistaken mishandling of classified material is illegal, and has been punished severely in the past.

Second, the act of setting up a non-government server, while simultaneously shunning the secure system already in place for the Secretary of State position implies clear intent to avoid the secure system. I have read, IIRC, that Hillary did not even have a state department email address - that means she deliberately avoided the secure system.

Third, she was required (like all who handle classified info) to undergo a series of training sessions, complete with signed acknowledgements, on what was allowed and not allowed. To immediately violate the acknowledged rules signals intent, even though it is not required under the statute.

The only other alternative is that Hillary’s IQ is so low that she cannot understand the word “classified”.


155 posted on 05/06/2016 5:14:23 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: BenLurkin

Merely setting up the server, and having the first piece of classified data land on the disk drive, was enough for jail time for you and I.


156 posted on 05/06/2016 5:45:15 AM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (by reading this, you have collapsed my wave function. Thanks, pal.)
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To: Fasceto

Intention to avoid accountability is malicious.

Period.

Full stop.

End of story.


157 posted on 05/06/2016 5:53:56 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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To: Fasceto

This is the new meme coming out of the White Hut. “She didn’t do on purpose, she meant no harm” So the Hillbots will give her a pass.


158 posted on 05/06/2016 8:00:19 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Fasceto

This is the new meme coming out of the White Hut. “She didn’t do on purpose, she meant no harm” So the Hillbots will give her a pass.


159 posted on 05/06/2016 8:00:32 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Fasceto

This is the new meme coming out of the White Hut. “She didn’t do on purpose, she meant no harm” So the Hillbots will give her a pass.


160 posted on 05/06/2016 8:00:40 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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