This is why we need an outsider as president.
Naval Reservist Charged, Clinton Freed
FBI Director James Comey said his decision to hand Hillary
Clinton a get-out-jail-free card on her unauthorized email account is in line
with how the FBI typically handles such cases — but history suggests
otherwise.
Comey justified his recommendation not to criminally prosecute
the likely Democratic nominee because of “the strength of the evidence,
especially regarding intent … and how similar situations have been handled in
the past.”
However, just last year Naval Reservist Brian Nishimura faced
heavier consequences than Clinton following FBI investigations into his case,
which revealed Nishimura "had access to classified briefings and
digital records that could only be retained and viewed on authorized government
computers."
"Nishimura, however, caused the materials to be downloaded
and stored on his personal, unclassified electronic devices and storage
media," the FBI wrote. "He carried such classified materials on his
unauthorized media when he traveled off-base in Afghanistan and, ultimately,
carried those materials back to the United States at the end of his
deployment."
The FBI "did not reveal evidence that Nishimura intended to
distribute classified information to unauthorized personnel," the same way
Comey said Clinton did not "intend" to "carelessly" handle
top secret information.
Two Assistant U.S. attorneys successfully prosecuted Nishimura,
who ultimately admitted to handling "classified materials
inappropriately" and destroying "a large quantity of classified
materials."
Nishimura was "sentenced to two years of probation, a
$7,500 fine, and forfeiture of personal media containing classified
materials" and "ordered to surrender any currently held security
clearance and to never again seek such a clearance," according to The
Daily Caller.
Meanwhile, Comey advocated that Clinton not be criminally
prosecuted despite federal investigations unveiling that the former secretary
of state sent and received more than 100 emails that contained classified
information on an account that was not secure.
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