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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

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To: Nita Nupress

Or give her a lobotomy. Makes no difference to me.
= = = = = = = = = =
A wasted procedure.

BUT
She could always say

“I used to have a bottle in front of me now I have had a frontal lobotomy.”

Notice the ‘sympathy’ factor is starting with ‘Bill being sick’ and guess Chelsea will be ready for another kid or even kidnap or have the first one come down with a debilitating illness....

Anything to keep the eye off the brass ring.


41 posted on 05/05/2016 8:34:22 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Pols headstone- Please bury me not so deep so I can continue to fleece the sheep")
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To: Fasceto
???

"...Sullivan writes, “They say they’ve had issues sending secure fax. They’re working on it.”
Clinton responds
“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”


42 posted on 05/05/2016 8:34:37 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Fasceto

Was a crime committed? Who done it? She did intend to store data on her unsecure server?


43 posted on 05/05/2016 8:34:48 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The most vocal supporters of a good con man are the victims.)
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To: Fasceto

Is malicious intent an element of the crime?

Wouldn’t it be simple knowledge regardless of intent, possibly recklessness or criminal negligence?

What elements was Petraeus guilty of?


44 posted on 05/05/2016 8:35:07 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Fasceto

Pure unadulterated crap. The law is the law. Lex Rex, not Hillary rex.


45 posted on 05/05/2016 8:35:23 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: RobbyS

No. The law doesn’t punish carelessness in this case. There has to be intent.


46 posted on 05/05/2016 8:36:14 PM PDT by Fasceto
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To: Fasceto

Actually she set up a separate system to protect herself from Obama.

But, in her defense, she was told that not following the security rules could lead to agents being “blown” and, naturally, she didn’t think the agents would mind that...


47 posted on 05/05/2016 8:36:22 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: blueunicorn6
Look at the posting history, this guy is a troll. Lots of anti Sanders stuff and only pro Hillary comments.

I have never made this kind of accusation before, but this dude lives under a bridge.

48 posted on 05/05/2016 8:37:04 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Fasceto

FBI agents on the case have been joined by federal prosecutors from the same office that successfully prosecuted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui

>>>Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the September 11 attacks.

call it cowpo, call it bulshift, stinks all the same. R.


49 posted on 05/05/2016 8:37:30 PM PDT by Rabin (André, Bertrand... Keep on keepin on. R.)
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To: Fasceto
18 U.S.C. §§ 793, and specifically 793(F) lowers the mens rea requirement from specific intent to gross negligence.

There is a good discussion of it here: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/emmens_reaem_and_hillary_clinton.html

There is also a good argument that her withholding the information from FOIA requests and from the Benghazi Committee constitutes evidence of removal from proper repository for a specific intent.

50 posted on 05/05/2016 8:37:43 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: Fasceto
Intent is required. It’s called mens rea.

No it is not. Mishandling of secure information is a crime.

I have to take training several times a year on the proper handling of secure information. Mishandling is "mala se".

51 posted on 05/05/2016 8:37:52 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Fasceto

By the way... intent can be conclusively established by the registration date of clintonemail.com

https://who.is/whois/clintonemail.com

Registered January 13, 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton#Nomination_and_confirmation

January 13, 2009 is also the date her confirmation hearings began, hearings which did not end until the 21st of that month, and she was sworn in on the same day.

This scheme can therefore be conclusively established to have been her intent before she took office.

Furthermore, she has repeatedly put a false statement on the record, that she set up the server for her “convenience”. But there was no way this could have been an issue on January 13, 2009, as she had not experienced the inconveniences of the security setup at State yet and decisions as to what specifically was allowed to her in terms of electronic communications devices were not even made yet.


52 posted on 05/05/2016 8:38:04 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Fasceto

Odd that the Washington Post has this. This is a FBI criminal investigation. Who is leaking it? Obviously it is coming through Obama’s DOJ and reaching his administration to manage the media message for Clinton.


53 posted on 05/05/2016 8:38:29 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Fasceto
I call BS about multiple details of the case. While I wouldn't have put her in jail, it was worse than a mistake imo. She perjured herself by signing off that she had turned over all her emails. Then 3 chains turn up. Sid Blumenthal. David Petraeus exchange was dated earlier than the earliest emails turned over to State, and the most recent ones that came to light, Judicial Watch the Huma email "I'm exhausted" said by Hillary.

It's so obvious she did what she did partly for convenience and mostly to hide what she was doing from Obama and FOIA requests from Republicans who did catch at least one lie, but she "held up so well"

The fix has been in all along.

54 posted on 05/05/2016 8:39:14 PM PDT by Aliska (Trump/Love 2016 has a nice ring to it, now we shall see)
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To: Fasceto

Bull squat! And does that matter when breaking the law?


55 posted on 05/05/2016 8:39:19 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: RobbyS

This despicable idiot was SOS. I don’t give a damn what her intent was.

It was obfuscation that led to secret messages being sent over a public server.

For a Secretary of State of the United States Government that is jail.

If she is that obtuse then it sure as hell doesn’t mean a promotion!


56 posted on 05/05/2016 8:39:58 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Fasceto

Public Records Act of 1950....no need for intent. She failed to take care of all kinds of public records to skirt FOIA discovery. Judicial Watch is doing the work that the DoJ refuses to do.


57 posted on 05/05/2016 8:39:58 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Fasceto

It has been reported over and over - the section of US Law covering this has NOTHING to do with intent.


58 posted on 05/05/2016 8:40:10 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Fasceto

Setting up one’s own server isn’t careless, it’s intentional.

Telling an underling: “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure” isn’t careless either, it’s intentional.


59 posted on 05/05/2016 8:40:23 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Fasceto

So she knowingly broke the law, but not in a bad way in her own mind. Got it.


60 posted on 05/05/2016 8:41:04 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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