The FBI has lost all credibility letting Hillary off

FBI director, James Comey, made a jaw-droppingly weird statement today when, after admitting Hillary Clinton sent and received over a hundred classified emails, illegally, from her private server, he suggested there be no criminal investigation.

“I have said repeatedly that I did not send nor receive classified material, and I’m very confident that when this entire process plays out that will be understood by everyone,” Clinton said last year.  She repeated this, again, last week on MSNBC.

Comey, then, completely contradicted her.  “From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 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," he said.  "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. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were ‘up-classified’ to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent."

So she sent and received at least 110 classified emails and she told us she did not send or receive any. 

One instance of her knowingly urging a secure document to be sent nonsecured is as follows, in an email chain with her aide, Jacob Sullivan

 

From the Washington Post:

"Comey said Clinton had used not one but multiple private email servers during her time at State. He said Clinton used multiple email devices during that time. (She had offered her desire to use a single device for “convenience” as the main reason she set up the private server.) He noted that the lawyers tasked by Clinton with sorting her private emails from her professional ones never actually read all of the emails (as the FBI did in the course of its investigation). Comey said that while the FBI found no evidence that Clinton’s private server was hacked by foreign governments, it was possible that it had been. He argued that the Clinton lawyers had deleted emails they marked as personal that contained professional content, and that while the FBI found some of those emails in its investigation, it was certainly possible more existed that they were unable to track down."

 

Here is three minutes of the statement from Comey, with the full 15 minutes below