I just watched FBI Director James Comey provide excruciating detail over how the FBI conducted the FBI investigation into SOS Clinton’s e-mails, the findings of the investigation, and what the FBI concluded.
The Bottom Line: While the Secretary of State was ‘extremely careless’ in her use of e-mail, and while some of the e-mails that went out from her private server were of utmost secrecy and placed confidential documents at risk, he ultimately determined that ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ was likely to bring a case based on the facts at hand. He said that he would submit his findings to the Department of Justice. Since the AG has stated that she would honor the findings of the investigation, this almost certainly means no indictment.
Having said that, anyone who watches Comey’s press conference can hardly feel comfortable with the SOS’ carelessness in this matter. He also destroyed her oft-stated claim that no secret or confidential e-mails went out over her server. That statement is no longer ‘operative’.
Now, can we all agree that Bill Clinton needs to disappear for the remainder of the campaign? Comey is a total straight shooter, this would have been the outcome regardless of the ‘chance meeting’, so all Bill accomplished was to underline why people like me who have no nostalgia for the Clinton years feel uncomfortable about Hillary, even though we’ll vote for her. Seriously, what is wrong with that guy?