UPDATE: Full transcript of FBI Director James Comey's statement on the Clinton investigation can be found here: Washington Post

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Just watched FBI Director Comey's Statement to Press on Clinton email server and email investigation:

Comey said, based on past cases, FBI would not recommend to Department of Justice any criminal charges be filed.

Other remarks by by FBI Director Comey (based on my handwritten notes) follow:

1. Said he had not cleared his statement with any other official in the Federal Government.

2. Claimed that while they recovered some of the deleted emails, they could not recover all of them.

3. Began investigation after referral from intelligence agency over concerns classified information was maintained on Clintons private servers. Made a point ot say this was not one server, but several, as well as multiple devices used.

4. Found evidence of 110 emails from the 30,000 provided by Clinton that contained (a) 8 email threads that Top Secret information (highest level), 36 that contained Secret information and 8 that contained confidential information (lowest level). Also found 2000 emails that were later up-classified to have contained confidential information.

5. Found several other emails not provided by Clinton from other sources, including emails retained by recipients of her emails. Of those recovered emails, 1 contained Secret information and 2 contained confidential information.

6. Was unable to forensically recover all of the emails that Clinton deleted. Stated her aides who received those emails scrubbed their devices or accounts in such a way as tom make it impossible to recover.

7. Found no evidence of deliberate or intentional misconduct by the lawyers who worked to delete the emails not turned over to State Department. Said lawyers for Clinton did not read emails, only subject matter headers, after searching the data base by using various "search terms."

8. Did conclude that Clinton was "extremely careless" in her handling of top secret and other classified information on her servers. Evidence showed that reasonable person should have known it was not safe to have such information on servers not maintained by the US government. States many people were aware Clinton was using a private server for her emails.

9. Stated Clinton's servers were not protected from intrusion by hostile interests as well as government servers or even servers used by private companies such as Google regarding their gmail.com servers.

10. Found no evidence of intrusion of Clinton servers by foreign entities or hackers, but said the potentially her servers were hacked because it was unlikely evidence of the intrusion could be discovered after the fact due to the poor security protection of Clinton servers.

11. Did find evidence that email accounts of Clinton email corespondents were hacked.

12. Stated Clinton made a habit of using her devices to send emails while in foreign counties or other places.

13. Though the FBI could find no evidence of hacking, their assessment is that foreign or hostile interests likely did obtain classified information as a result of her use of unprotected private server on which she maintained classified information.

14. Did not recommend indictment because FBI determined that no reasonable prosecutor would bring case based on these facts. All prior cases in which indictments were brought involved instances of intentional action, and FBI found no evidence that was the case here. Did not comment on whether the "extreme carelessness" he spoke of earlier was sufficient to meet the alternative standard of "gross negligence" in the statute to Clinton with criminal violations.

15. Claims this did not mean that what Clinton did was right, or should carry no consequences, only that he would not recommend criminal charges.

16. States investigation was above board and apolitical. He stated he was proud of the professional manner in which FBI investigated this case.

He then left podium and took no questions from press at that time.