James Comey Press Con. At 11am

[Benton]

(07-05-2016, 02:25 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Nixon lost his presidency over the Watergate cover-up of basically a harmless crime when it came down to it, though it was still a crime they covered up. And now Hillary could become president after lying about not knowing in having classified information sent to a non-secure server, which obviously is a crime. How far we have come in the last 40 years.

I think that's the arguable part there.

There's rules and then there's rules. In practice, federal officials as high as the president have kept classified info on unsecured servers since at least Bush. And there's a good bet Clinton I did the same. If it's a rule not in use and the opposite is in practice, it would be difficult to prosecute.

And Watergate was a culmination of events ranging from assault to theft allegedly sanctioned by the president, not one act that was erroneously repeated over and over by multiple people.