The director of the FBI, James B. Comey today announced that it would not recommend bringing charges against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee on her usage of private e-mail that may have led to mismanagement of classified information. This particular episode had often been cited as being one of the biggest arguments against her becoming the President and now the former First Lady will surely breath a sigh of relief. According a report in the New York Times, "But Mr. Comey rebuked Mrs. Clinton as being "extremely careless" in using a personal email address and server for sensitive information, declaring that an ordinary government official could have faced administrative sanction for such conduct.To warrant a criminal charge, Mr. Comey said, there had to be evidence that Mrs. Clinton intentionally sent or received classified information - something that the F.B.I. did not find."
The FBI had carried on an extensive investigation that went on for around a year and during that period that they went through e-mail servers, thousands of e-mails and in addition to that, they spoke to plenty of people. However, at the end of that they could not find any charge that could be brought against Mrs. Clinton. The New York Times report further went on to state, "During the investigation, Mr. Comey said, the F.B.I. recovered additional work-related emails that Mrs. Clinton's lawyers had not turned over to the State Department, including some that contained classified information. But he said there was no evidence that she or her lawyers had intentionally deleted or withheld them.Still, Mr. Comey delivered what amounted to an extraordinary public tongue-lashing. "There is evidence to support a conclusion" that Mrs. Clinton "should have known an unclassified system was no place" for that information, he said."
Over the past year or so, Mrs. Clinton had been lampooned by her opponents for having been responsible and also risked national security by using a private e-mail, however the FBI announcement certainly brings a closure to one of the most troublesome challenges for the former Secretary of State.