I love how Democrats try to 'wish away' Hillary's criminal activities, proclaiming defenses for her that, like Comey's own, are not legally accepted defenses for breaking the law.
Hillary obviously and blatantly violated both FOIA and Federal Records Act. Just recently the FBI released BRAND NEW OFFICIAL Clinton Server e-mails - over 400 - that she never turned over to the State Dept as she was required to do by law. That is over 400 violations of the FOIA and over 400 violations of the Federal Records Act, a total of more than 800 counts of criminal activity in this latest batch of released e-mails alone.
Hillary also committed criminal mishandling of classified material by stor9ing classified and unclassified information and treating all information as unclassified, illegal storage of classified information, illegal transportation of classified, illegal transmission of classified, and giving persons who did not have the legally required clearances access to classified.
Hillary obstructed Justice - refusing an order from the FBI to hand over all servers, devices, and documents. Instead, she deleted thousands of emails and documents (1 count each of obstruction of Justice), smashed devices (1 count each od obstruction of justice), failed to turn over all devices (1 count each), and removed the sim cards of the devices she did manage to turn in (1 criminal count each). Let's not forget she also used Bleach Bit' to wipe her hard drive.
All this destruction of classified information is covered by numerous laws, all of which she violated:
18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
(a)Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b)Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both”….1 count each for the thousands of documents Hillary destroyed
18 U.S. Code § 1519 – Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy
"Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."
“U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 12 — Diplomatic Security”:
18 U.S.C. Section 641. Public money, property or records
"Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use, or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or agency thereof, …Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years or both." …
Section 793. Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information …
(f) 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 not more than $10, 000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy, shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy
Now consider 1 criminal count each for every single one of the documents Hillary Destroyed, with their being THOUSANDS of documents Hillary destroyed.....
Destroying 1 document is a violation of each of these 3 laws...that's 3 counts for each document. To serve out the potential time Hillary could be faced with, her grandchildren's grandchildren would have to help her serve the potential time she could face once convicted.
And poor, mis-guided snowflakes continue to claim that their poor wittle criminal who never gave a shat about them broke no laws.
Bwuhahaha.....