Comey used private emails for FBI business
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15 Jun 2018, 4:27 pm
IG: Comey used personal email account for FBI business
The report contains several examples, including times Comey sent himself drafts of a testimony he planned to deliver to Congress and drafts of bureau-wide updates he planned to send to mark milestones during the year.
Using personal email for work purposes is "inconsistent" with DOJ policy, given a lack of "exigent circumstances and the frequency" at which the use occurred, the report says.
Clinton responded Thursday to a description of Comey's actions with a tweet:
"But my emails."
Asked by IG investigators if he had any concerns about conducting bureau business on his personal device and account, "Comey stated that he did not," the report says.
He also said he was certain his work would be captured by FBI email servers for record-keeping purposes.
"Because it was incidental and I was always making sure that the work got forwarded to the government account to either my own account or [FBI chief of staff James Rybicki], so I wasn't worried from a record-keeping perspective and it was, because there will always be a copy of it in the FBI system and I wasn't doing classified work there, so I wasn't concerned about that," Comey told investigators, according to the report.
Comey added that he did not use his personal email or laptop for classified or sensitive information, and only did use his personal email "when I needed to word process an unclassified (document) that was going to be disseminated broadly, (such as a) public speech or public email to the whole organization," the report says.
Comey added that he did not use his personal email or laptop for classified or sensitive information, and only did use his personal email "when I needed to word process an unclassified (document) that was going to be disseminated broadly, (such as a) public speech or public email to the whole organization," the report says.
I think I have a pretty good idea why Hillary was not indicted.
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20 Jun 2018, 11:28 am
I was looking for some thread about the IG Congress stuff to see what people were saying, but I guess people aren’t discussing it?
I’ve been watching this stuff on c-span for the last couple of days and I’ve just been blown away. The report was already out there, and I guess scrolling through it, I had gotten desensitized to reading similar “Drumpf and his voters are ret*d and smell bad” stuff on the Internet so that it didn’t alarm me that much. People I know know that I’m super into the president and they talk that way in front of me anyway. I’m not sure if it’s because they know I’m tolerant and allow it, or because they are hoping I’ll get mad and argue with them.
But hearing the outrage in the hearing was something. It made me realize that it really is NOT acceptable. It’s one thing for us here as private citizens to talk that way, but people working impartially on a case can’t. It’s not fair to anyone. The media coverage also isn’t fair to anyone. And this isn’t being discussed, but why in the world do we have to know the political opinions of people like Roseanne and Robert Di Niro? Can’t we enjoy watching tv or movies anymore? It’s all so wrong. I know I’m on the Internet saying this, but perhaps the Internet wasn’t such a good idea.
I remember being in college back in 1999 and one of the first things we learned was that no electronic information is ever secure, and the only thing keeping someone from hacking you is their lack of interest. If someone really wants what you have, they will get it. So don’t put it on a device, ever. This was 1999. So come on now. When this required medical records thing happened, I was like, okay, so I guess it’s a problem that people’s biological data is private. If that didn’t alarm you other old guys, you weren’t paying attention. Now it seems like the best way to be private is to be so boring that the Eye of Sauron doesn’t turn on you to find out why you are deviating from everyone else. Again, why should that be something to think about?
So this outrage at the bias is refreshing. I hope it goes somewhere.
