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Thanks in all fairness I did NOT get so detailed.
With that trying to read fairly and be as NON bias as possible. Its hard to corrolate the 2 cases.
1) There are 2 defaults that rely on judgement from 1917 which maintain classified material likely did NOT take into account of how in 2016 documentation is NOW handled. (BUT that is all for interpretation) Similar to how the 2nd Amendment is interpreted by "arms". But lets just play semantics for a second.... and sustain it. " Gross Negligence" must suggest Deliberate intention, criminally reckless. The intent to CREATE, Make, design, hold, maintain a private server. Separate from the established norms set for by the security standards. SEEMS to imply INTENT. to intentionally Maintain a separate housing OF Sight. I could see if it was within here state department office. THIS was completely separate with the INTENT to be completely separate?
2) Knowing Removal.....At an Unauthorized location. A private server from the Get go is it NOT in fact an "unauthorized location" from the get go? NOW I cannot say that HRC intended to remove it knowingly. But she KNOWING knew it was to be stored at an UNAUTHORIZED LOCATION. Now this goes back to the "Whataboutism" That I was inferring before Future situations will do the " What about Petraesu, What about Powell and now What about HRC.... This is NO way sets good policies. SO then the next question is. IF we leave HRC to how it ended up. HAVE WE MODIFIED policies and statues to make up for this BS crap???? I doubt it and that is TERRIBLE POLICY
3) Gonzales case to me, by statues is Apples and Oranges. Gonzales himself MADE ample attempts to maintain opsec. Marking the files TC eyes only AG. Storing it ON sight in the west wing. WHILE all these actions are STILL NOT an authorized method. His intent was to MAINTAIN the continuity of the info. HRC on the other hand. DID NOTHING to maintain opsec. Secondly INTENTIONALLY had an OFFSITE facility to store and maintain the info. Neither self classifying to protect it NOR reporting it to those that actually sent it in error to her personal server account. FINALLY the biggest thing that I have YET seen actually address. Those that LACK the security clearance that HAD FULL access to the communications as well as the server. the IT people that handled the server. Huma Abedein as well as her convicted husband all had unintentional Access to material NOT allowed by their clearance.
So why I am an absolutely NOBODY, zero jurisdiction, zero qualifications. I interpret things that just did NOT make sense. HENCE the reason why HRC did NOT win the Presidency and likely NOW forever a cloud cast upon her......
Well, if you want to disagree with the prosecutor's interpretations of the statute, it is fine with me. You may also want to disagree regarding if their justification of not prosecuting Gonzalez case is similar to their justification of not prosecuting Clinton's. Personally, I find the Gonzalez case very relevant, but in the end, both of us make arguments which are irrelevant to the legal system. The prosecutors and the IG thought that the Gonzalez case was relevant to the one of Clinton's, and this is what matters legally.
The prosecutors thought that in both cases a crime did not exist despite the obvious mishandling of information and did not press charges. Again, this is the only thing that matters legally. In the eyes of law, regardless what you and I believe, both Gonzalez and Clinton are not guilty. The same will be true if the prosecutors refuse to press charges for the Russian collusion. People may disagree with the rationale of the decision but this will be irrelevant from a legal perspective. Still, as I said earlier, the political perspective matters too! And people should be aware of questionable (from a political point) behavior. To me, people who arrange meetings with people who claim that they offer help from a foreign government to influence an election are committing treason in political terms. Perhaps, such behavior is not legally relevant but it is politically.