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Comey’s original Clinton memo released, cites possible violations | TheHill

posted onJanuary 5, 2018
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Article snippet: Ex-FBI Director MORE's use of a private email server was edited by subordinates to remove five separate references to terms like “grossly negligent” and to delete mention of evidence supporting felony and misdemeanor violations, according to copies of the full document. Comey also originally concluded that it was “reasonably likely” that Clinton’s nonsecure private server was accessed or hacked by hostile actors though there was no evidence to prove it. But that passage was also changed to the much weaker “possible,” the memos show. The full draft and edits were released on the website of Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee Chairman MORE (R-Wis.), providing the most complete public accounting to date of Comey’s draft and the subsequent edits. The draft, released in full for the first time on Thursday, offers new details on the FBI's Clinton investigation and controversial conclusion. The Hill was first to report late last year that Comey originally concluded Clinton was “grossly negligent” – the statutory term supporting felony mishandling of classified information – when she and her aides transmitted 110 emails containing classified information through her nonsecure server but that subordinates edited the term to the lesser “extremely careless.” The full draft, with edits, leaves little doubt that Comey originally wrote on May 2, 2016 that there was evidence that Clinton and top aides may have violated both felony and misdemeanor statutes, though h... Link to the full article to read more

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