F.B.I. Recommends No Charges Against Hillary Clinton for Use of Personal Email | Hacker News Reader

F.B.I. Recommends No Charges Against Hillary Clinton for Use of Personal Email

nytimes.com

50 pointssamsolomon15 comments

This story is getting flagged off the front page over and over. Clearly there's a segment that doesn't want to see this news or discussion of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037042

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037308

yeah, sad.

Definitely HN news worthy regardless of political leaning. These being constantly flagged chips away at the trust I have in HN

Looks like the FBI statement I posted got unflagged. Definitely disappointed in the flaggers who more than likely did not read it at all.

It may be because there are multiple posts. The first may have been flagged by people who didn't want to see the story, the later posts may have been flagged by both those who didn't want to see the story and those who didn't want duplicates of the same news (I'm in the latter bucket).

All of the threads were flagged fairly soon after they were initially posted.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/05/hacker-news-censors...

They can read your email and listen to your phone calls without a warrant.

They can feel you up and go through all your luggage on any domestic flight.

But they can't prosecute criminal treatment of classified documents.

America is dead. The rule of law is done. It's now a slow descent to totalitarianism.

The definition of "criminal treatment" is precisely the point here. Merely calling it criminal doesn't make it so.

My only wish is that the "no reasonable prosecutor" test would be applied to criminal cases against normal people, and not just the powerful and the privileged.

The FBI says their only reason for not recommending indictment is a lack of precedent. They described multiple felonies. In my lifetime ive never seen such a blatant display of a corrupt U.S. government (i was born after the JFK murder).

Did you forget the entirety of the Reagan and Bush Jr administrations?

They were just as corrupt in their own right, but past corruption does not justify current or future corruption.

You said it was the most blatant display. Ignoring two major presidencies that were blatantly corrupt. Hell the Bush Jr. admin ran a private email server and deleted 5 million~ emails about the Iraq War.

but much of their crimes were kept on the down-low. Clinton's has been major news for over a year. Thus, blatant.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com