FBI Director said that she sent and received info that was classified at the time, that behavior was reckless, that he did not find intent. But intent doesn't matter in such cases, so this doesn't make sense.

Comey ripped her up and down, making it sound as though they were about to prosecute and then said no prosecutor would proceed. He said not only Hillary Clinton herself was involved in 7 emails where the info was classified, but also emails that were marked classified at the time. He also said that she used personnel email overseas where they could have been breached, and that hostile actors had gained access to people that Hillary Clinton emailed. Saying thereby, great likelihood that it may have been compromised.

It is important to note from a prosecutorial point of view, he is not saying she did not commit a crime, it is not clearing her. He actually said that "Evidenc that she did in fact violate statutes". He is simply saying that it would be a difficult prosecution because of the difficulty of proving intent and therefore that is why prosecutors would not recommend. As I noted however, there are charges in question for which intent is not necessary, which this would seem to fit, even if you thought you couldn't prove intent.

18 U.S.C Section 793-F Definition of 'gross negligence' appears to include exactly what Comey said Hillary did.

(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

The DOJ still has to make the final decision, but given Loretta Lynch's prior statement, the email case is likely finished.

It should be noted, however, that the Clinton Foundation corruption case is still pending. Moreover, Wikileaks has threatened to leak Clinton emails that could be very damaging to her. 

Chance meeting last week with Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch last week. Obama begins to campaign for her today. Now this. All just coincidences…

Update:

Full transcript of Comey's statement here. 

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