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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm asking you outright if you personally believe that Clinton did nothing illegal and that the upper executives in the FBI did not 'go easy' on her. I'm quite sure you will not answer this with a yes or no.

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NP. No, she did nothing wrong, st least nothing any more wrong than what Colin Powell and Condi Rice recommended she do, nothing more wrong than what the Bush Admin did and she was less wrong than what the Trump Admin is doing with their disappearing messages and refusing outright to save materials. The upper FBI execs set out to wound her candidacy and they did.[/quote]

I will actually push back on this a bit. While it is true that Powell and Rice both practiced and recommended using a private server, the law changed in the mean time and Clinton faced a different regulatory environment. Not to mention that awareness of cybersecurity had increased markedly. Her server was a bad choice and an argument could be made that it was illegal. I doubt such charges could be sustained in court, however, but you never know.

I don't think upper FBI executives set out to wound her candidacy. Comey was overly concerned about protecting the FBI and failed to simply demonstrate common sense. The real problem in the FBI were the roque agents who were very anti-Clinton. They acted on their biases and severely damaged Clinton's candidacy. 
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Different regulatory environment, still not prohibited. And still not as bad as what Trump is presently doing with using all sorts of the encrypted and “disappearing” message apps.

And, no, what Comey did in July of 2016 wasn’t about “protecting the FBI.” Yes, the NYFO agents went totally rogue as you have written several times in this thread, but I’m not talking about October, which was the rogue agents. I’m talking about July. There was no rule, no guidance, no common sense that suggested that he should give that kind of press conference excoriating Hillary’s actions, confirming for millions of Hillary-haters that every horrible thing they’d heard from Rush et all was probably true. All the while failing to mention that oh yeah, Donald is under investigation for possible treason. [/quote]

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