From Reader Kyle:

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(It has an MSN slant so take it for the liberal rag it is)

by John Solomon:

Ex-FBI Director James Comey's original statement closing out the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server was edited by subordinates to remove five separate references to terms like "grossly negligent" and to delete mention of evidence supporting felony and misdemeanor violations, according to copies of the full document.

Comey also originally concluded that it was "reasonably likely" that Clinton's insecure private sever was accessed or hacked by hostile actors though there was no evidence to prove it. But that passage was also changed to the much weaker "possible," the memos show.

The full draft and edits were released on the web site of Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), providing the most complete public accounting to date of Comey's draft and the subsequent edits.

The draft, released in full for the first time on Thursday, offers new details on the FBI's Clinton investigation and controversial conclusion.

The Hill was first to report late last year that Comey originally concluded Clinton was "grossly negligent" - the statutory term supporting felony mishandling of classified information - when she and her aides transmitted 110 piece of classified information through her insecure server but that subordinates edited the term to the lesser "extremely careless."

The full draft, with edits, leaves little doubt that Comey originally wrote on May 2, 2016 that there was evidence that Clinton and top aides may have violated both felony and misdemeanor statutes, though he did not believe he could prove intent before a jury.

"Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statute proscribing gross negligence in the handling of classified information and of the statute proscribing misdemeanor mishandling, my judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," Comey originally penned.

That passage, however, was edited to remove the references to "gross negligence" and "misdemeanor mishandling," leaving a much more generic reference to "potential violations of the statutes."

The FBI has told Congress the edits were made by subordinates to Comey and then accepted by the then-director before he made his final announcement July 5, 2016 that he would not pursue criminal charges against Clinton.