Maggie's Farm

Clinton said: "He's free to go, he was free to come, these decisions are his alone to make."

IdahoBob: Hillary knew when she created her illegal private server that she was breaking the laws and putting state secrets at risk.

Career investigators at the FBI disagree.

IdahoBob: I have no doubt that the Iranians were given copies of her emails by the Russians implicating Amiri.

There's no evidence that the Iranians had access to the emails. There's no evidence that the emails implicated Amiri.

IdahoBob: Actually the FBI agreed that her private server system was incredibly risky ...

Yes, Comey called it "extremely careless", but not something any reasonable prosecutor would bring to trial.

IdahoBob: and was hacked and she put thousands of secret emails on it which Russia now has.

That is false. Comey said there was no evidence of a hack, though it is possible it was hacked and left no evidence.

IdahoBob: We may never know how many people she killed with this criminal act.

Most of the so-called classified emails were relatively innocuous. The one example provided, concerning Amiri, doesn't support the claim.

IdahoBob: He did indeed say “not something any reasonable prosecutor would bring to trial” which almost immediately most reasonable prosecutors disagreed with him AND pointed out that was not for him to decide.

Most? We'd like to see support for that claim. Was there are a poll? Or do you only watch Fox News?

IdahoBob: Clearly Comey was threatened/bought/biased and IMHO should have resigned after this terrible act of treachery.

So to support your claim, you are reduced to arguing that the unanimous agreement to not recommend indictment means that the career investigators were bribed or threatened. Perhaps, the Clintons have the investigator's children in an undisclosed location. Don't you see how bent your position is to require such unevidenced mangling of the truth?

IdahoBob: After half a dozen people wiped the hard drive there was indeed no evidence.

The hard drive wasn't wiped, and the FBI has sent thousands of recovered emails to the State Department.

IdahoBob: Obviously you don’t know that.

There were only three with classified portion markings, but all three were missing headers. The State Department says two were marked in error, and were not actually classified. The third is not known. Perhaps it has the nuclear codes. This is where you can insert truthiness in place of facts.

Many of the conversations that were later classified included subjects such as drone attacks in Pakistan, hardly a state secret, but something the State Department classifies nonetheless.

Email is a necessary part of the modern world, and procedures are not keeping up with technology. For instance, Colin Powell had emails that were retroactively classified on his personal AOL account.

DrTorch: That's not what career FBI investigators said

Comey told the House Oversight Committee that the decision not to recommend an indictment was unanimous among the investigative team.

Sam L: I'd call that "Blaming the victim".

No. Amiri claimed the U.S. was holding him. Clinton's statement contradicts that claim.

The vast majority of victims were Muslims. There's an internecine war going on, with attacks on civilians a major mode of warfare.

mudbug: And that's significant because...?

It supports the claim that most of violence is due to internecine warfare.

Meanwhile, Bodo separatists attacked a marketplace.

mudbug: A distinction without a difference.

We're sure that's very comforting to the families of Muslims who were killed by Muslim terrorists.

mudbug: They're killed for basically the same reason we are - they aren't "Islamic" enough.

It depends on the group. Many groups, such as the Taliban, object to the influence of the West, their mores and their military interventions. Other groups, such as ISIS, really do intend on eliminating anyone who does not hold to their radical ideology. Some terrorist groups aren't Islamic.