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Comey, Who Investigated Hillary Clinton For Using Personal Email For Official Business, Used His Personal Email For Official Business (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Former FBI Director James Comey, who led the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of personal email while secretary of state, also used his personal email to conduct official business, according to a report from the Justice Department on Thursday. The report also found that while Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of the email investigation, political bias did not play a role in the FBI's decision to clear Clinton of any criminal wrongdoing.
The report from the office of the inspector general "identified numerous instances in which Comey used a personal email account (a Gmail account) to conduct FBI business." In three of the five examples, investigators said Comey sent drafts he had written from his FBI email to his personal account. In one instance, he sent a "proposed post-election message for all FBI employees that was entitled 'Midyear thoughts,'" the report states. In another instance, Comey again "sent multiple drafts of a proposed year-end message to FBI employees" from his FBI account to his personal email account.
The report from the office of the inspector general "identified numerous instances in which Comey used a personal email account (a Gmail account) to conduct FBI business." In three of the five examples, investigators said Comey sent drafts he had written from his FBI email to his personal account. In one instance, he sent a "proposed post-election message for all FBI employees that was entitled 'Midyear thoughts,'" the report states. In another instance, Comey again "sent multiple drafts of a proposed year-end message to FBI employees" from his FBI account to his personal email account.
That was the issue with Clinton. Handling classified material improperly. Bid difference.
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But he's still subject to the same records retention laws that Clinton was willfully subverting.
Ok
Clinton wasn't accused of using personal email for business. She was accused of transmitting top secret documents over unsecured personal email (very illegal), and using personal email to communicate state business secretly outside of officially logged and recorded channels (also illegal).
Is this what Comey is accused of? If not, everyone can fuck off with their "he did it too" shit.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Of course there was no political bias, James Comey is a Republican and his second in command, Andrew McCabe, is a Republican too. Yet the GOP blowhards constantly tell their base this is a conspiracy by the Democrats.
It is the same with the special prosecutor Robert Mueller. He was selected by Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who was appointed by Trump. Both Rosenstein and Mueller are Republicans. In fact Mueller was the FBI Director under Bush.
Powell never used his personal email for official government related emails. That is a lie. The Left tried to get him on it and it failed for that precise reason.
To the contrary, he did. But it wasn't illegal to use personal servers for government related email. It only became policy after Hillary left office: https://www.wsj.com/articles/c...
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-defends-personal-email-227889
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/fbi-colin-powell-email-probe-218748
(it was probably illegal for him to not archive them, though.
In fact, it was Powell who advised Hillary on use of personal e-mail: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...
"Amusingly, her server turns out to have been more secure than the State Department server. The State Department got hacked, but the Clintons didn't. https://securityintelligence.c... [securityintelligence.com] "
The OIG report released today SAYS that foreign governments had at least one of her emails marked Secret - from her server.
Then how did those darn Russians get her emails? The alternative to badly secured server hacked by Russians is the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. Pick your poison carefully.
The DNC email leak was from the DNC, not the Clinton server (and was years after Hillary left the Secretary of State office). It was done by phishing John Podesta's account: https://www.apnews.com/dea73ef...
https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/03/ap-investigation-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-emails/
Powell didn't have a private server. He had a private email account (accessed via dialup on a laptop no less), and used both it and his official state.gov email account.
Hillary set up a private server and used it for all her official email. She never used her state.gov email account.
Comparing the two is like comparing someone who occasionally drives over the speed limit, with someone who always drives 100+ MPH.
But it wasn't illegal to use personal servers for government related email. It only became policy after Hillary left office
Then why, in his original testimony to Congress, did Comey specifically state that Clinton did break the law? He chose not to pursue the case because, in his opinion, she had no intent to commit those felonies, but he did, very specifically, state that she committed them.
I guess maybe he was referring to the willful destruction of evidence in an ongoing investigation, a la interns with phones and hammers?
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Those "Russian ad buys" were in favor of progressive causes though. They funded Black Lives Matters, Clinton campaign rallies, etc.
Stop. You are wrong.
Information is classified - every agency has a large document called a Classification Guide that describes what sort of information that agency considers worthy of classification.
Documents are supposed to be marked if they contain classified information, to allow people to know how to handle the document without reading it. Even if not marked, the information in the document is still classified; it just isn't labelled.
The phrase "classified at the time of sending" is a lie. The documents may not have been MARKED as containing classified information, but they did. There is no such thing as "classified after the fact".
Additionally, Clinton sent documents containing NRO imagery that was clearly labelled TOP SECRET at the time they were sent. They were classified, were correctly labelled, and were from an agency Clinton had no authority over. All of your BS excuses (even if they weren't lies) still wouldn't apply to those.
Clinton sent classified info, knew it, and told the FBI to fuck off - then got away with it because the highly-ambitious Mr Comey thought she would be his next boss.
AS Secretary of State, as a former senator, HRC is responsible for determining what is and is. It classified (at any of the three levels) WITHOUT relying on 'markings'. That's like saying it was OK for her to rob a bank because no one told her it was illegal.
It's a childish defense for something that someone who was responsible to know better.
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> That and the FBI was actually pretty pro-Trump.
Are we reading the same report?
Page 5:
Page 420 shows a text saying "we'll stop" Trump from becoming President--a text that was somehow completely omitted, rather than redacted, from previous disclosures.
Page 430 shows FBI agents getting 'gifts' from the media.
Page 461-2:
You may want to read more than just the conclusions at the end.
The DNC email leak was from the DNC, not the Clinton server (and was years after Hillary left the Secretary of State office). It was done by phishing John Podesta's account:
There were three distinct leaks: one from the Clinton server, one from the DNC and one from Podesta. The Podesta leak has nothing to do with the DNC leak and the phished Podesta account is on gmail.