Local reaction to the FBI's investigation into Clinton's emails
Local politicians, prosecutors and groups used Tuesday to respond to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
FBI Director James Comey in a Tuesday morning press conference said Clinton acted "extremely careless," but not with criminal intent.
Criminal charges were not recommended to the Justice Department.
The damning things the FBI said about Clinton's email
In a fundraising pitch, the GOP said Hillary's use of a private email and unsecured email server was "sloppy, irresponsible and dangerous to our nation."
"Hillary Clinton simply cannot be trusted to be the Commander-In-Chief and leader of the free world!" the pitch stated.
In a released statement, Matt Borges, the Ohio Republican Party chairman, said today's findings "confirm that Hillary Clinton has been lying to the American people all along."
"This is a clear indictment on Hillary Clinton's lack of preparedness and judgment to be commander-in-chief," Borges said. "This recklessness that puts her own interests above that of the country is troubling and it is ridiculous that she won't have to face consequences for her actions."
Borges said Clinton should have used a State Department account like everyone else, but she didn't because "she didn't want people to know what she was doing."
Andrew S. Pappas, GOP candidate for Hamilton County commissioner, said he would dedicate himself to doing whatever he needs to do to stop Hillary from ever winning the election.
"So, you may be on the fence this election, you just may be, but not after today," Pappas said. "The FBI just spit on the constitution, and really on you. Call it pro Trump or anti Hillary, I care not. She is unfit."
Congressman Steve Chabot said in a released statement, "While the FBI does not recommend that criminal charges be brought against Hillary Clinton, Director James Comey sure sounded like he thought such charges were justified throughout the press conference. It's pretty clear from his comments that laws were broken through Clinton's use of a homebrewed server, as the FBI found more than 100 classified messages were sent through unsecured channels."
Clinton should have known better than to subject sensitive information to such risks on a private, unsecured network, Chabot said.
"As for the decision not to recommend criminal charges be brought against Clinton, despite strong evidence that the law was broken, it's clear that the Clintons continue to live by a different set of laws from the rest of us," Chabot said.
Chabot added that we "should have known" that the Obama administration wouldn't prosecute its former Secretary of State for activity that happened on his watch.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters weighed in with a Tweet.
Deters said the FBI should turn over their facts to the prosecutors.
"They should be the ones determining what a 'reasonable' prosecutor would do...," Deters said in the Tweet.
U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup said in a released statement that this decision undermines the rule of law; "virtually any other federal employee who did what Hillary Clinton did would have been prosecuted."
"With the Democratic National Convention just three weeks away, this recommendation comes at a very convenient time for their presumptive presidential nominee.
"This is all the more reason Americans have lost faith in and are frustrated with Washington politicians. Hillary Clinton has been put above the law in this case, even with so much evidence pointing to the blatant neglect of her duties as Secretary of State. The American people deserve accountability and transparency from our leaders and especially someone running for the highest office in our nation. Hillary Clinton does not meet those standards of accountability and transparency.”
Donald Trump said in a released statement, "The FBI director laid out today a detailed case of how Hillary Clinton compromised the safety of the American people by storing highly classified information on a private email server with no security. He confirmed that her email could easily have been hacked by hostile actors, and confirmed that those she emailed with were hacked.
"Our adversaries almost certainly have a blackmail file on Hillary Clinton and this fact alone disqualifies her from service. IT has also been revealed that Hillary Clinton lied when she said that she did not send classified information. The FBI Director confirmed that over 100 emails were deemed classified at the time they were sent, including emails classified as top secret.
"On top of it all, Hillary Clinton's lawyers wiped the servers clean to delete another 30,000 emails -- hiding her corrupt dealings from investigators.
"But because of our rigged system that holds the American people to one standard and people like Hillary Clinton to another, it does not look like she will be facing the criminal charges that she deserves."
Hillary Clinton Spokesman Brian Fallon said in a released statement, "We are pleased that the career officials handling this case have determined that no further action by the Department is appropriate. As the Secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now resolved."
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