Yes I quite agree with you, the use of the word "careless" was calculated to appease those who can look at the record and come to no other conclusion yet put a value on the degree of carelessness so that it does not approach "gross negligence."
If I look at the transcript of the directors remarks, I think I will find a modifier increasing the degree of negligence but without using the word "gross."
It is odd that the FBI is making a value judgment about what is essentially a jury question, the degree of negligence involved in exposing the country and its top secrets to espionage. Normally, if the evidence meets a threshold, which the director admits, of more than ordinary negligence, it might be reconsidered gross negligence by a jury and that decision should be left to a jury. Instead, the director of usurps that function.
It's also interesting that the director does not even touch on the potential motive to line the pockets of Bill Clinton and the Clinton foundation when he talks about collateral factors which might recommend for prosecution. It is as though that huge scenario hovering over the whole affair does not exist.
agree. it’s like comey overstepped his position and pronounced judgement of not guilty.
Let’s loretta off the hook for having to do her job of deciding indict or not.
bunch of liars and cheats all of them!
...it might be reconsidered gross negligence by a jury and that decision should be left to a jury. Instead, the director of usurps that function.Well, technically he's leaving the decision to a prosecutor (or at least the DOJ), but by saying that no reasonable prosecutor would bring the case he's got his finger on the scale.
he talks about collateral factors which might recommend for prosecution. Does today's finding of no indictment mean that the investigation into the Clinton Foundation is over as well?
One of the Clinton's constituencies is made up of liars, scam artists and cheaters. They admire the king and queen of such. The more people who join them in their nefarious ways, the more they believe they will get away with themselves. sad