"To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now."
- FBI director
James B. Comey
Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
no different in any Corporation, if a CEO or VP does something that is against the rules for everyone, he does not get punished in any way while the employee could get a black mark or a review that was poor or even be let go....
For us peons, life sucks, and then you die I suppose...
Pretty sure that if they break the law they will go to jail as anyone. Unless they are a wall-street firm and gave Hillary some donations, that is. As for their internal conduct, obviously a director of a corporation is not tied by that, conflating the law with the internal conduct is silly. Directors aren't supposed to follow the rules they make.
In the comment you posted, I watched the hearing live and I believe Comey was talking about RULES that were broken, not about whether this was a criminal case or not.
It was not anything CRIMINAL on the rules she broke, they were not laws that she broke, the rule breaking is NOT what Comey was investigating....
They are two separate issues.
And what I was speaking about at corporations, which I have a lifetime of experience working for, were company rules.
So again, why doesn't everyone have servers off post?
She wasn't suppose to receive any top level classified information on it, just like if she had the State.gov email as her staff did, it too was an UNCLASSIFIED system of the govt's and it was not secured for top level classified information either.
In the State Department there was a completely separate system for the top level classified information which had no internet email access and also no way to move information from this Top Secret classified system to the State.gov system that her aides worked off of....
the top secret system was an IN HOUSE accessed system only which she and her aides used for top secret classified while in the State department offices.
The emails that were later deemed top secret classified, was not information copied from the top secret system and put on to the State.gov email system, it was her aides discussing things that were later deemed classified T/S by the Intelligence Community from what I have read on it. They got most all of this top secret info from AN OUTSIDE the govt source (Blumenthal), NOT from the top secret govt system....thus, her aides did not consider it top secret govt info and on some of this, emailed each other on this info from an outside source back and forth on the UNCLASSIFIED State.gov system for nearly two years, before they even forwarded the now deemed top secret email chains to Hillary.
There are many mitigating circumstances of why Hillary's Aides and Hillary did not commit a crime and were not charged with a crime under the Espionage Act.