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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (67293)4/17/2018 5:22:43 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 360374
 
But at some point, someone decided "gross negligence" should be the phrase, and that person was an attorney would would understand the meaning and implication of the term. That suggests to me that when the term was used they believed they had criminal intent.

From the article:

The change is significant, since federal law states that gross negligence in handling the nation’s intelligence can be punished criminally with prison time or fines.
There are two criteria, the negligence and the intent. The text of the law is clear. Comey made the point back when it was first announced that intent could not be asserted. Which means it isn't a crime however gross the negligence.

someone decided "gross negligence" should be the phrase

There are many benign ways that phrase later be deemed unwarranted. Your explanation is plausible but then so are too many others, including stock language assembled as a first cut by some grunt, to make your preferred version more than just plausible.

So, I suppose it could go either way, but it certainly would not be her first crime.

I know you want badly to get her for something, anything. Remember the f-word for which jailing one's political enemies is a harbinger. If not that, then, that maintaining such a level of animus is bad for one's health.
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