The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal Was Totally Overblown

[DonViejo]

We learned nothing new from the investigation or James Comey’s statement.

By Fred Kaplan

The fuss over Hillary Clinton’s email has now proved to be one of the most overhyped news stories of this overhyped news season. Look at Tuesday’s statement by FBI Director James Comey. Ignore his self-righteous, scolding tone. Read the facts he’s uncovered, place them in context, and the conclusion is inescapable: As Gertrude Stein once said of Oakland, California, there’s no there there.

Let’s review the numbers.

Examining the 30,000 emails that Clinton turned over, the FBI agents found 110—the back and forth of 52 email chains—that contained classified information. Of these, just eight had material that she should have known was “top secret”; 36 of them had “secret” information; and eight more had stuff that she should have known was “confidential.”

The agents also scrounged through the bits and pieces of 30,000 more emails that she didn’t turn over and found three—three!—that contained classified information: one secret and two confidential.

About those first 30,000 emails, the ones Clinton turned over, the FBI handed them out to auditors at other agencies that might have an interest in the matter, and after months of review they “up-classified” 2,000 emails to confidential. In other words, when Clinton wrote or received those 2,000 emails, she and her correspondents would have had no reason to suspect they were jotting down classified facts. But the reviewers have declared them classified retroactively. Your taxpayer dollars at work.

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[MFM008]

1. I agree with this guy

[spooky3]

2. Comey sounded like a controlling mansplainer w/r/to BOTH Clinto and Lynch.

Wouldn't be surprised to learn this guy has a history of sexism.

[mcar]

4. Yes!

[BobbyDrake]

5. But what are we going to do with all this spare Concern lying around everywhere? Where will it go?

So much Concern can't be wasted, can it?

[larkrake]

6. it was the thousands of work related e-mail she deliberately erased that formed his terse statement

his statement clearly states "untruths" and he is pissed he is not going to bring her to justice. He was quite clear he believes she is guilty. He will wait for the next scandal.