M.N.: The FBI and Mr. Comey were correct in their decision regarding no reasonable basis for legal prosecution of Mrs. Clinton. Now they have to turn their ire against the real culprits, those known and unknown "hostile actors" who are behind these unprecedented and critical threats to cyber security, which made the country vulnerable as never before. This includes the Jihadis' encrypted communications, theft of cyber information, various frauds, risks to infrastructure, propaganda efforts, etc., etc. This is a new and difficult challenge which will become more and more important. The FBI has to be on the top of this game.
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"On June 29, the Russian Defense Ministry announced it was purging the entire senior and mid-level command of the Baltic Fleet. It was a dramatic move that suggested deep structural problems within the fleet command. In total, 50 officers were dismissed from their post, including the fleet commander, Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk, and his chief of staff, Vice Admiral Sergei Popov.
Not since Stalin's purges had so many officers been ousted at once.
If the decision to remove the entire command staff was unprecedented in the Russian military tradition, the manner in which the Defense Ministry publicly accused the officers of dereliction of duty was even more surprising. Usually, a disgraced officer will be quietly shown the door, and a press release will chalk it all up to health troubles. But they made an example of Kravchuk.
On June 29, the Defense Ministry issued a statement that pulled no punches. Kravchuk and his command had, it said, showed "serious shortcomings in the organization of combat training, daily activities of their forces, failure to take all necessary measures to improve personnel accommodations, inattention to their subordinates and distorted reports on the real state of affairs [in the fleet]."...
"This is undoubtedly connected to the departure of Admiral Viktor Chirkov, the head of the navy, last year" says Mikhail Barabanov, editor-in-chief of Moscow Defense Brief, an analytical monthly published by the Center for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST). Chirkov left his post in November 2015, with reports citing health concerns...
According to Fontanka.ru, corruption indeed factored heavily into Shoigu's decision to liquidate the fleet command structure. Kravchuk reportedly had a relationship with a local organized crime boss, Viktor Bogdan, who was stealing diesel fuel from the fleet. Furthermore, part of the Fortress Kaliningrad project required housing to be constructed for the 11th Army Corps, stationed at the Baltiysk Naval Base. Funds for the barracks reportedly disappeared, and the soldiers were left to live in squalor, Fontanka.ru reported."
