On Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey announced that he would not recommend obvious felon Hillary Clinton for indictment. His rationale: she didn’t have the requisite “intent” to move forward with a prosecution. Here was Comey’s conclusion:
Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent…. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
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