Actually that's not what he said. You are leaving out the word "Potential".She did commit them... he said so. But refused to press charges.
"Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information....."
And in the Witchhunt, waste of time hearings the next day, he amplified, as per FactCheck. But your side has a no lose scenario always. Charged = Guilty, Not charged = Guilty but the fix was in. As a Bettor, you know they pay out on the actual result, not what you wanted the result to be.
But later in the hearing, Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman asked Comey if he knew that the State Department had said that the emails were marked classified in error. Comey replied, “No.”
Likewise, Rep. Matt Cartwright, also a Democrat, asked Comey if the emails were properly classified, and Comey said they were not. (Executive Order 13526 spells out how documents should be properly classified, including a header on the document clearly identifying the email as classified as “confidential,” “secret” or “top secret.”)
Cartwright asked if Clinton could have missed the improper markings. Comey said that that was possible.
Cartwright, July 7: So, if Secretary Clinton really were an expert at what’s classified and what’s not classified and we’re following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?
Comey: That would be a reasonable inference.
Comey: That would be a reasonable inference.