"When the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Tuesday that his investigators had no 'direct evidence' that Hillary Clinton's email account had been 'successfully hacked,' both private experts and federal investigators immediately understood his meaning: It very likely had been breached, but the intruders were far too skilled to leave evidence of their work." (Emphasis is mine.)

Having now established that the 4th Estate don't need no stinkin' badges when pursuing the Clintons, Sanger lets us know that if Elmer Fudd hadn't stopped to take a leak, he'd have undoubtedly caught that wascally wabbit:

"'Reading between the lines and following Comey's logic, it does sound as if the F.B.I. believes a compromise of Clinton's email is more likely than not,' said Adam Segal, the author of 'Hacked World Order,' who studies cyberissues at the Council on Foreign Relations. 'Sophisticated attackers would have known of the existence of the account, would have targeted it and would not have been seen.'" (Again, emphasis is mine.)

Now, there's no actual proof to back any of this up, of course -- but that doesn't stop Sanger and his interview subjects from engaging in the sort of free-range speculation that's probably de rigueur amongst the chattering class at happy hour:

"Since the disclosure that Mrs. Clinton used private email, government officials and many outside the government have been monitoring cyberspace, looking to see if any of her messages, or those directed to her, made their way into the public domain. Documents from the Democratic National Committee began circulating after it announced a breach that also appears to have been conducted by Russian intelligence.

Nothing from Mrs. Clinton has surfaced. But that does not mean they were not stolen, only that they have not been made public." (And again, emphasis is mine.)

Well, speaking for myself only, I for one would like to know how my bong ended up in the bottom drawer of Mr. Sanger's desk at the New York Times' Washington bureau.

The video shows the officer closer to his head had the violent felon's left arm pinned down by kneeling on it but the other officer closer to his feet was unable to secure his right arm which was reaching for his right pocket.

Her reasons for using a private server...
FOIA avoidance, that was always known
despite Madame Sec's claims for convenience,
which Director Comey just blew out of the water.

Comey stated there will be no criminal charges,
But je left open that there could be other consequences, If she were anyone else, Comey said in a televised press statement, the facts uncovered in the FBI's investigation might cost Clinton her security clearance -- if not her job.

My only point was it seemed to me Comey was going out of his way to put the worst possible spin/most negative on a lot of the information he delivered in his statement.

I really don't care anymore, nothing I've seen in this ridiculous witch hunt shows that she was acting in bad faith.

I don't believe there has ever been a prior cabinet secretary who has had to release the entirety of their daily work emails.  Most of what have been release wouldn't even meet the definition of Federal Records.  The OIG report made clear in multiple places that only certain emails should be preserved.  She turned over 1000's of boxes of them.  

She clearly didn't understand that one can have two email accounts on the same device, because she said that she didn't want personal, non-work-related government emails from family and friends to fall under the government domain and thus be subject to outside scrutiny. Further, she preferred using her BlackBerry because she was familiar with it, and really didn't want to learn a new device.

(Ironically, since the FBI subsequently took custody of the Clinton Foundation server, her private emails are now likely in government hands, anyway. So rather than preclude that from happening, she inadvertently ensured by her own decision making that it would happen.)

Mrs. Clinton has since admitted publicly that she exercised poor judgment in arriving at that decision, and obviously wouldn't do it again. Like the Benghazi nothingburger from which it devolved, this has been an incredibly overblown issue. And now that Attorney Gen. Loretta Lynch has officially closed the DOJ's books on this matter, I'm going to move on, too.

the Obama Administration has repeatedly shown throughout this process, they were never going to prosecute Clinton's criminal behavior because they are counting on her to deliver their failed agenda a third term.  

Here's the problem.  There is no scenario in which they make that case without calling Comey a liar and a fraud.

How did we get here?

i think it's because the GOP learned the wrong lessons from the 2012 primaries & decided to have many more debates this year, with far too many candidates who got just enough support in early polling & primaries to make The Donald's support look more robust than it really was

& because portions of the GOP base (like portions of the Democratic base) have been caught up this year in a wave of populist anger & chose to give the (short vulgarian) finger to the party bosses who spent millions of dollars trying to shove Jeb! down their throats

JOE SCARBOROUGH (CO-HOST): I got to say, even Bill Kristol was saying afterwards, "That was something. That was something." That was amazing. He's like, "I'm not sure what I saw, but that was amazing."

BRZEZINSKI: No I'll tell you what you saw.

SCARBOROUGH: What did you see?

BRZEZINSKI: You saw him connecting with the crowd in a way that no other politician in the history of politics that we know ever could. You can't imagine a Republican candidate going up there and talking about his golf course in Turnberry without getting killed. Remember the car elevator and all sorts of things that plagued Mitt Romney? This guy talks about his Turnberry golf course and everybody in the audience is with him, about the construction project, and about his son and they actually feel they could own a golf course in Turnberry. He connects. He connects.

There is video.  And more at the MSNBC site if you can take it.