• snooggums@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    She willingly and knowingly broke the law.

    What law?

    The FBI probe focused on whether Clinton or her staff violated federal laws governing the handling of classified information, and whether foreign powers or hostile actors hacked into her private server, which was located at her home in New York.

    FBI Director James Comey on July 5 announced that although Clinton and her staff were “extremely careless” in handling classified information, the FBI did not find evidence that their actions were intentional. He declined to pursue criminal charges.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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      5 months ago

      What law?

      The Clinton campaign previously had indicated that her personal emails were deleted before Clinton received a congressional subpoena on March 4, 2015. But the FBI said her emails were deleted “between March 25-31, 2015” — three weeks after the subpoena.

      That one? The first few lines of the link you provided? Just because they chose not to pursue doesn’t mean it wasn’t a violation of the law.

      Just like a district attorney can chose not to prosecute on some charges in favor of only bringing a subset of them… or none at all?

      It is illegal to purge/destroy evidence after being served a subpoena. However the answer seems to be that both you and the comment you responded to were wrong. A law was broken, but deemed unknowingly.