Triple G wrote:
PS- Beyond possession, can you confirm an intent for Clinton? Or, even that any of the documents were "classified", much less any that were Top Secret?
"110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was
Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification."
Clinton had her office deliberately delete emails prior to handing over to the FBI. Comey gave her the benefit of the doubt that this was an error and that she did not attempt to conceal anything. Lucky Hillary!
"With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level."
"None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail."
"... we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors,
we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account." [emphasis added]
Again, Hillary was given a pass that she did not intend to break the rules and that she meant no harm.
It pays to have friends in high places, no?
All quotes are James Comey, July 5, 2016