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Clinton hid thousands of emails, put classified data on her server, but shouldn't be charged - FBI Clinton hid thousands of emails, put classified data on her server, but shouldn't be charged - FBI
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Though FBI found that Hillary Clinton and her staff were “extremely careless” with State Department emails hosted on a private server, no criminal charges will be brought against the former secretary and current presidential candidate. Though the FBI found that Hillary Clinton and her staff were “extremely careless” with State Department emails hosted on a private server, no criminal charges will be brought against the former secretary and current presidential candidate.
The FBI found “several thousand” work-related emails that were not turned over to the State Department by Hillary Clinton, Comey said.“Three of those were classified at the time,” he added. “No reasonable prosecutor” would bring criminal charges in this case, FBI Director James Comey told reporters Tuesday morning, after going into the details of the bureau’s two-year investigation, which he described as a “painstaking undertaking requiring thousands of hours of effort.”
None of those emails were intentionally deleted to hide information, the FBI director said. “Three of those were classified at the time,” he added.
Though Clinton’s lawyers scrubbed the email servers in a way that precluded further forensic examination, the FBI is confident “there was no intentional misconduct” by them, Comey said. Clinton used “several different serversand numerous mobile devices” to send and read emails on her personal domain during her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, Comey explained. The FBI set out to investigate any intentional or grossly negligent handling of classified information, as well as whether any hostile actors gained access to the files, after the intelligence community Inspector-General requested a probe.
 While the FBI thinks that Clinton and her associates did not deliberately mishandle the emails, “there is evidence that they were extremely careless” in handling highly classified information, Comey said. “None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system,” he said, and the fact that they were hosted on a private server, without adequate technical support and protection, was even worse.The FBI “did not find direct evidence that Clinton’s personal email domain was hacked successfully.” Of the 30,000 emails turned over to the State Department, the FBI found that 110 messages in 52 chains contained information that was classified at the time, of which eight were Top Secret, 36 were Secret and eight were Confidential. Another 2,000 messages were later deemed to have contained classified information based on their subject matter, in a process called “up-classification.”
The FBI “did not find direct evidence that Clinton’s personal email domain was hacked successfully.” However, the actors who could have hacked it successfully would have left no trace, the director noted. Given that, “it is possible that hostile actors gained access.” The FBI also found “several thousand” work-related emails that had been deleted over the years. Three of those were classified at the time. However, the bureau concluded that none of them were intentionally deleted to hide information, Comey said.
 “No reasonable prosecutor” would bring criminal charges in this case, Comey announced. Though he said that Clinton’s lawyers “cleaned” the devices used to host the email servers in a way that precluded further forensic discovery before turning them over to the bureau, the FBI is confident “there was no intentional misconduct,” according to Comey.
The investigation was done “honestly, competently and independently,” with no outside influence, Comey maintained. “Only facts matter. And the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way.” No direct evidence was found that Clinton’s personal domain was hacked successfully, but hostile actors could have gained access at some point, given the lack of support and protection of the private servers, he said.
“None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system,” Comey said, adding that Clinton and her associates were “extremely careless” in handling highly classified information, while “the security culture at the State Department was generally lacking.”
Even so, the FBI chief announced that he would not recommend any criminal charges be pressed against the former secretary, who is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the US presidency.
“No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” he said.
On Friday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that she would accept the bureau’s recommendations in the Clinton email probe, whatever they might be. Lynch was defending her 40-minute private meeting with former President Bill Clinton at the Phoenix, Arizona airport, which she said involved discussions about golf and grandchildren, and in no way touched upon the email probe.
The FBI investigation was done “honestly, competently and independently,” with no outside influence, Comey said on Tuesday. “Only facts matter. And the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way.”