BuckToothMoron
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Your point is right on. Many Trump supporters are having a knee jerk reaction to the allegations, and an investigation is merited. However let me make another point- this behavioral reaction is not the lone purview of the Trump supporters. It was also demonstrated in spades by the Hillary supporters during the investigation of her private server.
If you recall, Comey declined to prosecute Hillary because he couldn't prove intent, only gross negligence, even though intent was not part of the statute.
Subsection (f) of the pertinent statute (the Espionage Act, codified at Section 793 of Title 18, U.S. Code) makes it a felony to mishandle classified information “through gross negligence” — i.e., proving Clinton was sloppy or careless (or “extremely careless,” to use Comey’s own description) could have been sufficient. But beyond that, Clinton willfully set up a private network for the systematic handling of her State Department-related communications, in violation of federal record-keeping requirements of which she was well aware, and under circumstances in which she (a former senator who served for years on the intelligence Armed Services committee) was a sophisticated longtime consumer of classified information. She was keenly aware that her responsibilities as secretary of state would heavily involve classified information — whether it was “marked” classified or “born classified” because of the subject matter.
We shall see if the current justice department is as lenient with the orange clown as the last one was with the bulldyke.
