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Clinton is obviously eager to move on, with her campaign releasing a statement saying, "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."But though criminal charges appear to be off the table, Comey emphasized repeatedly that he was not absolving Clinton's staff altogether. "The security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information found elsewhere in the government," the FBI director said. He added that people who do what Clinton's staff did in regards to emails "are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now."Comey's "extremely careless" line, and the broader notion that the Clinton family flouts the rules, will surely be the subject of attacks against the Democratic candidate in the weeks and months to come. Those attacks in turn will probably convince Clinton supporters that the Republican Party is unconcerned with the facts and is just out to destroy Clinton by any means necessary. (Comey has already been criticized for his harsh statements.) But that is just the normal noise of politics. Comey, for one, seemed glad that his part in the drama was officially over."I know there were many opinions expressed by people who were not part of the investigation—including people in government—but none of that mattered to us," he said. "Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed by insight into our investigation, because we did the investigation the right way. Only facts matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way."Follow Harry Cheadle on Twitter.FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)July 5, 2016