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This case has unusual precedents. Comey is on record explaining why Hillary and Huma Abedin should not be charged IN PAINSTAKING DETAIL.
In fact, Comey said, in both cases, Criminal Intent was necessary to be charged.
Comey, for Huma too, goes down the list of violations - and then says there was no Criminal Intent there, so there wouldn’t be any charges.
Cases usually have Judicial Rulings as precedents, but this case is highly unusual because the charging decisions and the basis behind those non-charges have been delineated under oath to Congress. And the Law hasn’t changed.
I think they just wanted in there, and they also got FISA Surveillance approved like the old days.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1o6atwZUcI&t=4s
“Not for them a judge or jury,
Not for them a crime at all,
Being Irish means they’re guilty,
So they’re guilty, one and all.
Round the world,
The truth will echo,
Cromwell’s men are here again!
England’s name again is sullied,
In the name of honest men.
Comey was wrong, by the way. The statute does not require intent.