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Monday, September 12, 2016

Should Comey resign? Will he?

J. Marsolo

During his July 6 news conference, FBI director James Comey outlined in detail the facts of Hillary's potential violations of federal law, and common sense, in using a private email system to conduct State Department business that involved national security. But after listing all the facts Comey concluded he could not prove that Hillary had the intent to violate the laws, despite her use of BleachBit, a program to erase emails, to erase emails, her aides using hammers to destroy computers, and the destruction of over 33,000 emails many after receiving a subpoena from Congress.

Intent is a conclusion that the judge or jury draws from the evidence presented, and most believe that there are enough facts here to infer intent. If I use BleachBit to destroy emails, then one may reasonably infer I intended to destroy the emails.  More

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