Thursday, July 7, 2016

Clinton email resutls

In his announcement on Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey said he could not find a previous case involving the mishandling of classified information that would support bringing criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. Former CIA Director John Deutch working in the Clinton administration was just such a case. "This is a person who plugged the computer into the Internet -- the Department of Justice was going to prosecute him and then it was President Clinton that offered that person a pardon. And so this has been prosecuted, or at least attempted to be prosecuted, in the past. As the Associated Press reported on Jan. 24, 2001: "Former CIA Director John M. Deutch agreed last Friday to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for mishandling government secrets, but President Clinton pardoned him before the Justice Department could file the case against him." Another interesting point of contention in this case is the difference between “extreme carelessness”, and negligence. The law says that a person can be prosecuted for negligence and Comey says there was no negligence but there was extreme carelessness. This is reminiscent of the “depends on what the definition of is, is?

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