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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.

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  1. Sites back, grabs a tub of popcorn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok, fight!

    1. Re:Sites back, grabs a tub of popcorn... by BeauHD++(.)+(0) · · Score: 1, Troll

      This is more FUD perpetrated by the media who are in collusion with the Russians to distract from Mueller actually finding something about TRUMP. Trust us, there is a LOT of dirt on TRUMP but there is so much it must be removed first with a steam shovel. Which. Takes. Time.

      And on a side note, I'm available for side work if any you needs to pump up their YouTube channels.

    2. Re:Sites back, grabs a tub of popcorn... by Gr8Apes · · Score: 0, Troll

      "As Secretary of State, she had the authority to declare what server are secure!"

      Not true. The Sec of State only has classification authority over documents originating with the Dept of State. The classified info they found originated in other agencies.

      I believe, if you look at the documents themselves, out of the 110 or so found, none originated on her server that were classified at the time of sending. The rest were classified after the fact. That still doesn't get around the fact that Hillary, Rice, and Powell all used non-governmental email servers. Powell, at least, should have known better, and was the one that started the practice.

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    3. Re: Sites back, grabs a tub of popcorn... by Boronx · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yes, she should have known better than to send unclassified material as if it was unclassified. Thanks for your input.

  2. It is only Illegal if... by Zorro · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are a conservative.

    1. Re:It is only Illegal if... by infolation · · Score: -1, Troll

      Did Fox buy Slashdot?

  3. Re:Hypocrisy in government? by Train0987 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Comey was a useful idiot for the others trying to undermine the Trump campaign and then overthrow the election.

  4. Re:Oh My God by Train0987 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Attempting to overthrow the President of the United States by members of federal law enforcement is more important. And it's ongoing.

  5. Re:Trump isn't a Conservative, but a traitor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HILLARY FOR PRISON 2018!!!

  6. More diversionary tactics by Rick+Schumann · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Trump administration uses anything they can to divert the attention of the public and the press away from the inhumane, anti-American, anti-Christian (which I only mention because that's supposedly the base of his supporters), and downright evil shit that he and his appointees keep committing against the United States, it's citizens, and the human race in general; so it is with this, it literally doesn't matter.. Don't fall for it, kids. Keep your eye on the ball.

  7. Re:Hypocrisy in government? by AutodidactLabrat · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ahhh, Comey is the guy who gave tRump the electoral votes

  8. Re:Whut? by Train0987 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Comey was used to create the pretext for releasing the FusionGPS dossier that began the Russian Collusion "investigation" He was also used before that when the FBI planted spies in his campaign. Those are both known facts, not conspiracy theory.

  9. Re:Whut? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 0, Troll

    And, of course, when you say "known facts", you mean "Faux News fantasy theories".

  10. Re:This is what the Trump administration wants by Train0987 · · Score: -1, Troll

    You don't have a degree in Gender Studies, therefore you are uneducated. How dare you doubt your betters in Government!

  11. Re:Powell did too by Prien715 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just a friendly reminder:
    No one is going to believe any story on Fox News who doesn't already agree with you. You should try finding a more neutral source if you want to convince people.

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  12. Re:Hypocrisy in government? by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 0, Troll

    No. Clinton lost herself the election.

    That's not being fair to the Trump team. They pulled off an amazing upset and they deserve credit for that. And the MVP for the team was either Comey, Putin, or Assange.

  13. Re:Hypocrisy in government? by quantaman · · Score: 0, Troll

    What I don't understand about Comey is that he all but threw the election to Trump while panning Trump left and right.

    It's easy to understand. Comey and the rest of the beltway didn't even suspect Trump might get elected. The purpose of that farcical reopen/close stunt was to clean the slate; Clinton would win the election and enter office with no outstanding investigative hangups.

    That and the FBI was actually pretty pro-Trump.

    Giuliani had sources inside the Clinton email investigation and was dropping spoilers, if Comey didn't make the announcement there's a real good change Giuliani would have announced it and used the scoop to claim that the FBI was engaged in a cover-up.

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