REALITY CHECK : How has Hillary Clinton not be charged after the FBI said yes to numerous laws broken?

The FBI says no charges should be filed against Hillary Clinton. A federal judge on Monday declined to order the deposition of Hillary Clinton over whether she deliberately thwarted federal record-keeping laws— but did not rule out the possibility that the former Secretary of State may yet be forced to testify.

The real question: is Clinton being treated differently than the average American?

Let’s give the FBI director a Reality Check.

Republicans on Capitol Hill hit FBI director James Comey with a barrage of questions just weeks ago. The center of that questioning was if Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, mishandled classified information. How has she not been charged yet if the answer was yes?

Here was Comey’s answer:

“We don’t want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something that they shouldn’t do.”

By now, we all know that the FBI ultimately determined not to charge Clinton, but do you understand why?

There are three levels of classification set by the U.S. government: confidential, secret, and top secret. Comey said that the FBI found 110 emails in 52 email chains from the Clinton servers that contained information that was classified at the time they were sent or received. Of those email chains, 36 were found to include information labeled secret and 8 were found to contain information labeled top secret.

That means that the repeated claims made by Clinton for months that she never sent any classified material that was classified at the time is not true.

So why was Clinton not charged?