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14 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g Thursday 7th July 2016 Justice Dept. closes Clinton email probe with no charges WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email setup has been formally closed without any criminal charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday. The decision had been expected and was largely a formality given FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation a day earlier against any prosecution. Even before Comey’s public statement, Lynch had said she intended to accept the recommendations of the FBI director and of her career prosecutors. Even so, it officially closes out an FBI investigation that had dogged Clinton for the last year and proved a major distraction on the campaign trail as she emerged as the Democratic presidential front-runner. Lynch said she met with Comey and prosecutors Wednesday and agreed that the investigation, which looked into the potential mishandling of classified information, should be concluded. “I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, year-long investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation,” Lynch said in a statement. Comey, in an unusually detailed and public accounting of the investigation Tuesday, said “no reasonable prosecutor” would pursue a criminal case and said he was advising the Justice Department against bringing any charges. But he also rebuked Clinton, who relied exclusively on a private email server as secretary of state, and her aides for being “extremely careless” with their handling of classified information. “There is evidence to support a con- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. clusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position ... should have known that an unclassified system was no place” for sensitive conversations, Comey said. Clinton’s likely general election opponent, Donald Trump, unleashed a methodical attack during a rally Wednesday in Cincinnati, contrasting her statements about the email server with what Comey said and labeling the former secretary of state “a dirty, rotten liar.” Reading from a script, which he rarely does, Trump ticked off several of what he called Clinton’s “lies” about the servers, including that she only used one email device and that she did not have any emails marked as “classified” on the private server. “She made so many false statements,” Trump said. “Is she going to be brought before Congress? Is something going to happen?” The Justice Department’s decision seemed likely to inflame Republican anger, with Capitol Hill lawmakers pressing for answers about how Clinton could have avoided prosecution given Comey’s stinging characterization of her email setup. Comey was scheduled to face questions about the decision in an appearance Thursday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Lynch herself is scheduled for an oversight hearing next week on Capitol Hill. The Clinton campaign has tried to move forward. “With the AG accepting Director Comey’s recommendation, this case is resolved, no matter Republicans’ attempts to continue playing politics,” campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said on Twitter. FBI agents spent the last year investigating the matter following a referral from the intelligence community’s inspector general. As part of that investigation, investigators pored through tens of thousands of State Department emails and interviewed top Clinton aides - and finally, Clinton herself this past weekend. Despite his critical assessment of Clinton’s email practices, Comey said there was no evidence that anyone intentionally or willfully mishandled classified information. “No charges are appropriate in this case,” he said. Lynch on Friday announced she was prepared to accept whatever findings and recommendations were presented to her by her investigative team. Though she said she had already settled on that process, the announcement came just days after she had an unscheduled meeting with Bill Clinton aboard her plane in Phoenix. Lynch said the investigation was not discussed, but she acknowledged that the meeting had “cast a shadow” on the process and led to questions about the independence of the investigation. (AP)
Thursday 7th July 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 15 Wednesday’s Sudoku Solution S U D O K U CROSSWORD Across 1. Pieces hiding in 20, 33, 42 and 57-Across 5. Mountain pass 10. Part of Einstein’s formula 14. Horse with a white-sprinkled coat 15. Egg source 16. Bee, to Opie 17. Part of aka 18. Fang output 19. Ancient portico 20. Wriggling free 23. Dads, to many 24. Polish partner 25. West of Hollywood 26. Links goal 29. Burn it or step on it 31. Viewpoints 33. Gainesville athletes 37. Print, maybe 38. Part of a Dogpatch nickname 39. They’re charged and can be exchanged 42. Plot development? 47. Garden show favorite 49. F/M choice 50. Poker winning 51. Dog days mo. 52. Wall St. letters 55. Last of 26 57. Sturdy swinger 63. Roulette color 64. Miss Brooks portrayer 65. Someone hysterical 66. French river or department 67. Uncle’s girl 68. Border line 69. Hungarian Premier Imre 70. Classic Dodges 71. General ___ chicken Down 1. Arafat, for one 2. Playbill listing 3. Fem. counterpart 4. One with an interest in your business 5. Serbian city 6. It’s within range 7. Sharp tastes 8. Coarse cough 9. Church music composer 10. Jolly Roger’s perch 11. First course sometimes made with squash 12. Winter transport on treads 13. Vampire slayers 21. Stable visitors 22. Normandy battle site 26. Gomer Pyle’s USMC rank 27. Nothing antithesis 28. Rocky road 30. Buyer’s delight 32. Xeric 34. Not illusory 35. Card player’s shout, sometimes 36. Place for yodelers 40. Cpl. or sgt. 41. Collector’s aim 43. Frodo’s burden 44. Ranch helper without a bunk 45. Changes city planning 46. Plow animals 47. Finally occur to 48. Borealis preceder 53. Narrow furrow 54. Duck with soft down 56. Plume’s source 58. Discoverer of deuterium 59. Angular lead-in 60. Assists 61. Not for here 62. Hot times in Quebec
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