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FBI Director
James Comey on Tuesday recommended against prosecuting Hillary
Clinton or her aides for their "extremely careless" handling of
classified information on the private email server that she used
as secretary of state.
Comey said the FBI had found evidence that "the security culture
of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of
unclassified systems in particular, was generally lacking in the
kind of care for classified information that's found elsewhere
in the U.S. government."
Asked about the FBI director's assessment, Obama told reporters
in a news conference: "I am concerned."
"The advent of email and texts and smart phones is just
generating enormous amounts of data," Obama added, saying that
this, in turn was "putting enormous pressure on the department
to sort through it, classify it properly."
Obama said that if one classified too much, the benefits of the
information evaporated because it took too long to process. "It
reflects a larger problem in government," he added. Clinton has
said her use of a private email server was a mistake.
(Reporting by Ayesha Rascoe, Jeff Mason and Arshad Mohammed;
Editing by G Crosse and Sandra Maler)
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