Intent

Former FBI Director Comey is an enigma. He is both praised and castigated by both political parties. Even though he is an attorney and versed in the law he says some controversial things. The most well-known was his lengthy diatribe laying out Mrs. Clintons mishandling of private emails. It was at the end of that where he said she was not guilty of any crime because she did not intend to commit a crime. When Mrs. Clinton’s assistant Huma Abedin sent and received classified emails he once again did not prosecute. CNN has previously reported it was likely that some of the emails stored on Weiner's laptop contained classified information, and fired FBI Director Comey testified that there is no indication Abedin "had a sense that what she was doing was in violation of the law." It sounds as if an accused can be exonerated if they plead ignorance of the law and/or they say they didn’t mean to break the law. It reminded me of the old comedian Flip Wilson whose character Geraldine would respond to her misdeeds by saying with great conviction, “The Devil made me do it”.