| hershel_layton said: "The similarity of such case to the Clinton controversy doesn’t seem to be lost on Comey. The FBI chief strongly stated that others who behaved as Clinton did wouldn’t necessarily get off the hook like the former secretary did." |
This is why you shouldn't just listen to a media site with an agenda and trust their claim. He didn't say that Clinton got off the hook, or that others would be punished by the FBI where Clinton wasn't.
What he said (and you can find it in the official statement, here) is "To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now."
What he's saying is that the things that Clinton did, and shouldn't have done, don't fall under FBI jurisdiction. She hasn't broken laws, she hasn't done something that she can be indicted for. If someone else did the same things, and the FBI were told to investigate, they would not charge them, either.
But what she did *could* be subject to various sanctions by the government, if they determined such sanctions to be appropriate. And similarly, an individual who does these things *could* have their security clearance downgraded, to ensure that they don't have access to confidential/classified information.
In other words, the FBI did exactly what they were supposed to do - they investigated whether Clinton had broken laws, found that no such laws were broken, and made a statement to that extent.
