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.

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But did he send any classified information?

[MrNJ]

That was the issue with Clinton. Handling classified material improperly. Bid difference.

Re:Sites back, grabs a tub of popcorn...

[Killall -9 Bash]

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.

Re:Powell did too

[XXongo]

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...

Re:Sites back, grabs a tub of popcorn...

[Train0987]

"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.

No, Different leak [Re:Sites back, grabs a tub...]

[XXongo]

The State Department got hacked, but the Clintons didn't.

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/

Re:Powell did too

[Solandri]

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.

Re:Hypocrisy in government?

[Xenographic]

> That and the FBI was actually pretty pro-Trump.

Are we reading the same report?

Page 5:

A paragraph summarizing the factors that led the FBI to assess that it was possible that hostile actors accessed Clinton’s server was added, and at one point referenced Clinton’s use of her private email for an exchange with then President Obama while in the territory of a foreign adversary. This reference later was changed to “another senior government official,” and ultimately was omitted.

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:

First, Kadzik did not recognize the appearance of a conflict that he himself had created when he initiated an effort to obtain employment for his son with the Clinton campaign while he was participating in senior staff meetings where Clinton-related matters were discussed and signing letters to Congress regarding Clinton-related matters on behalf of the Department. Second, Kadzik created an appearance of a conflict when he sent Podesta the “Heads up” email that included government information about the FOIA litigation in an effort to be helpful to the Clinton campaign without knowing whether the information had yet been made public. His willingness to do so raised a reasonable question about his ability to act impartially on Clinton-related matters in connection with his official duties. Additionally, although Department leadership ultimately decided to recuse Kadzik from Clinton-related matters upon learning of Kadzik’s “Heads up” email to Podesta, Kadzik subsequently forwarded several emails communicating information related to Clinton-related matters within the Department and indicated his intent to speak with staff about those matters. We therefore concluded that Kadzik exercised poor judgment by failing to strictly adhere to his recusal.

You may want to read more than just the conclusions at the end.