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Exonerated? Clinton has a lot to explain still

The FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton has concluded that Clinton’s use of her own e-mail server while Secretary of State is not sufficient to bring criminal charges. Clinton can now safely say, in the words of Richard M. Nixon, “I am not a crook.”

But the conclusions of the FBI should still cause concern among voters trying to figure out who to support in the upcoming presidential election. FBI Director James Comey had no kind words for Clinton’s actions.

Investigators found no proof that Clinton or her aides intended to break laws for handling of classified information, but Comey said “There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

Investigators found 113 messages that contained classified information at the time they were sent or received from Clinton’s personal e-mail account, despite Clinton’s assertion that there were no classified messages in the group of 30,000 emails she turned over to investigators.

“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position … should have known that an unclassified system was no place” for sensitive conversations, Comey said.

That is hardly an exoneration for Clinton. She still has a lot of explaining to do to the voters who are faced with the (lesser of two evils) choice that Clinton and Donald Trump pose in November.

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