Mr. President, some have taken yesterday's announcement by FBI Director Comey as vindicating Secretary Clinton for her use of a private, unsecured email server. But that would be exactly the wrong conclusion to draw. While the FBI did not recommend that the former Secretary of State be indicted, the concerns I have previously raised time and again have only been reaffirmed by the facts uncovered by Director Comey and the FBI's investigation. It is now clear beyond a reasonable doubt that Secretary Clinton behaved with extreme carelessness in her handling of classified information and that she and her staff lied to the American people and, at the same time, put our Nation at risk. First, Director Comey said unequivocally that Secretary Clinton and her team were ``extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.'' He went so far as to describe specific email chains that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level at the time they were sent and received--in other words, at the highest classification level in the intelligence community. Remember, Secretary Clinton said that she never sent emails that contained classified information. Well, that proved to be false as well. The FBI Director made clear none of those emails should have been on an unclassified server--period--and that Secretary Clinton and her staff should have known better.…
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