FBI Director James Comey, center, said today that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

FBI Director James Comey, center, said today that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

FBI Director James Comey announced today that the agency has completed a thorough investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal server as secretary of state and is recommending no charges be filed.

“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said. All previous cases that were prosecuted “involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.” The ultimate decision about whether to indict Clinton will come from the Department of Justice.

But while the FBI found no evidence that Clinton and her staff intended to violate the law, Comey called their handling of classified information “extremely careless” and said it is possible that “hostile actors” gained access to the account.

Clinton has admitted to erring, saying in an interview with ABC earlier this year, “if I could go back, I would do it differently. I know people have concerns about this.”

According to Comey, 110 emails in 52 e-mail chains contained classified information at the time they were sent, and eight of them were top secret—contradicting Clinton’s claims that she never sent or received any classified information using private email.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump responded to the news with his usual level of astuteness—“No charges, Wow!—and compared the case to that of David Petraeus.

Edward Snowden had this to say:

And a Bernie Sanders spokesperson said that the decision won’t change his decision to stay in the race.

The full text of Comey’s announcement can be found here.

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