05-18-2017, 08:46 PM
(05-18-2017, 07:43 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: And as determined by the FBI, none of those classified emails were marked classified at the time they were sent or received.That's not true. Hillary said she did not receive nor send any information that was classified. Comey disputed this when he said that there were a few emails that were marked classified however most of them weren't clearly marked as classified. Comey went on to say that although the information wasn't clearly marked as classified, the types of things that were being discussed were clearly something she should have known was classified.
Quote:I'm saying the reason the investigation wasn't about the details of the individual emails was because there wasn't anything to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Thus the investigation is viewed as mishandling classified intel only. If they had found something the investigation would have been about mishandling classified information and the details of the emails.
Well yes, it would have been about the content of the emails if the content showed that Hillary was being willfully careless with classified information. Comey said he did not find information that showed Hillary was being intentionally careless but rather that she was just being "accidentally careless". Comey said that there was top secret information found on her server and it was careless of her to have that information on her server when she knew that the server was unsecured. Hillary's defense was just "Oh, well I didn't know the information was classified". Since she said she didn't "know" the information was classified all Comey had to go on was her word because there were no emails that showed she actually did know the information was classified.
Comey felt he had nothing to prosecute her on other than "extreme carelessness" which he didn't feel was a prosecutable offense.. The classified information within the emails was irrelevant to the idea of prosecuting her on the grounds that she knew the information was classified. What Comey wanted to know was if there was classified information on Hillary's unsecured server and whether she knew that information was actually classified. What the classified information actually was didn't matter so much. What mattered was if it was classified period.
Sure, Comey could have laid it all out for us what classified information was actually in the emails, but that didn't matter in the matters of actually prosecuting her on the basis that she knew the information was classified.
