FBI against Hillary charges over emails
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THE FBI won’t recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state, agency Director James Comey said yesterday, lifting a major legal threat to her presidential campaign.
Comey said that although the investigation found “extremely careless” behavior by Clinton and her staff in their handling of sensitive information, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had concluded that “no charges are appropriate.”
He said the agency believed that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
The announcement came three days after the FBI interviewed Clinton for hours in a final step of its yearlong probe into the possible mishandling of classified information.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said last week she would accept the recommendations of the FBI director and of career prosecutors, meaning that Comey’s decision almost certainly brings the legal part of the issue to a close and removes the threat of criminal charges.
However, it’s unlikely to allay voter concerns about Clinton’s trustworthiness. And it probably won’t stop Republican presidential rival Donald Trump from continuing to make the server a campaign issue.
Clinton’s personal email server, which she relied on exclusively for government and personal business, has dogged her campaign since its existence was revealed in March 2015.
She has insisted that no email she sent or received was marked classified, but the Justice Department began investigating last summer following a referral from the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence community.
The scrutiny was compounded by a blistering audit in May from the State Department’s inspector general, the agency’s internal watchdog, which said Clinton and her team ignored clear warnings from officials that her email setup violated federal standards and could leave sensitive material vulnerable to hackers. Clinton declined to talk to the inspector general, but the audit said that she had feared “the personal mail being accessible” if she used a government email account.
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