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In criminal law, intent is one of three general classes of mens rea necessary to constitute aconventional as opposed to strict liabilitycrime. A more formal, generally-synonymous legal term is scienter: intent or knowledge of .
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
There is not a fucking word in there about intentions.
You (and Comey) are deliberately misinterpreting "intent" here. It's as if your argument is that Hillary didn't intend for those servers to follow her home and hook themselves up in her closet to her computer and make themselves unsecured. They must have done that on their own without her knowledge.
If we apply the Comey/Duhs standard, no one can ever be prosecuted for any crime. The standard defense from this day forward should be... "I did not intend to break the law!"
So.... If you get a speeding ticket, appear in court and tell the judge you didn't intend to speed. If you get busted with marijuana, appear in court and tell the judge you never intended having drugs in your possession. If you're hauled into court for beating your wife.... you didn't intend to beat her! Driving drunk? You didn't intend to!
A new day is dawning in America!
...Oh by the way... Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld are forever exonerated for Iraq.... never want to hear one peep out of your punk ass again about that.