The Guardian’s Lucia Graves warns Democrats not to get complacent about the FBI’s decision to not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, arguing the legal victory is a political setback for the former Secretary of State.
From the Guardian:
On Tuesday, FBI director James Comey removed a dark legal cloud from over Hillary Clinton’s head and replaced it with a political one.
Roughly a year after the case of Clinton’s server was referred to the justice department, a preliminary FBI investigation found “reasonable confidence there was not intentional misconduct” on Clinton’s part, and recommended no criminal charges be brought against her.
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“No charges are appropriate in this case,” Comey concluded in what amounts to an unusually public determination ahead of the justice department’s decision.
Of course this is no usual investigation.
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Democrats would be foolish to get too complacent, however. If what Clinton received on Tuesday amounts to the beginnings of a legal vindication, she has not received a political one. And she never will.
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