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Special Counsel Robert Hur reported that he uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. But went on to say the evidence does not establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and that no criminal charges are warranted. And  Really? How can that be? Because when evidence of mishandling classified information is discovered as he reported, he had no authority to consider mitigating nor any other reason to not refer charges to a grand jury to do that. His only authority was  to determine as he did, that a crime had been committed. Evidently, he and Attorney General Garland decided to do what former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former FBI Director, James Comer did. On July 5, 2016, James Comey reported to the nation via live television broadcast that during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, she unlawfully used an unsecure private email system to receive and send a total of 110 classified emails that included confidential, secret, and top-secret information. However, to protect her from prosecution and to ultimately prevent her disqualification to campaign for the presidency in the upcoming 2016 election, Comey and she unlawfully deemed Hillary’s violations “extreme negligence” instead of “gross negligence” as mandated by 18 U.S. Code § 793(f) and went on to say; “No reasonable prosecutor would bring this case”, even though he was mandated to refer 110 charges against her for grand jury action. Attorney General Loretta Lynch was gross negligent and derelict of duty for not taking possession of his findings and submitting the charges. However, one month later, August 19, 2016, US Navy Sailor Kristian Saucier pleaded guilty to having six photographs showing his work area aboard his assigned submarine that included images of classified equipment. He was sentenced to six months home confinement, and three years of supervised release with electronic monitoring. Yet even though his six violations paled in polar contrast to Hillary Clinton’s 110 in scope of exposure and susceptibility and vulnerability to compromise, she escaped indictment and prosecution. Of course, officials possessing optimum levels of character integrity handled his case.