The official statement for those that missed it:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/pr...-e-mail-system
To summarize with commentary (not in order):
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From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
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Sooo... There was definitely highly classified info in the emails
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Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked “classified” in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.
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Despite the Clinton claims that "none of them were marked as classified", some actually were and even if they weren't, she should have known and protected them.
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She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.
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Some of these emails were sent across hostile adversaries' network where they could be easily read.
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Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
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Translation: The prosecutors are in the bag so we'll just recommend against charges and put an end to a futile effort
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All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
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It seems to me that they met these criteria from their own statement
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As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.
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It's worth noting that he did NOT take questions from the press after the statement. That's really unusual for a statement with this level of public interest.
Personally, I think they (FBI) were caught between a political hard place and a rock. If they recommend "for" then Lynch walks back her statement from the other day where she said "I
expect to accept the FBI's recommendation" note she that left herself some wiggle room to ingore the recommendation if it wasn't what she expected.
Conspiracy theorists are probably correct about this one...