"<<wherein Comey said Clinton should not be prosecuted, came as a complete surprise>>
Really?"

Really.  You must have been in a bubble to have missed the disjunct between the first half of his speech --- where he laid out a virtual indictment --- and the second, wherein he recommended no prosecution.  The gravamen of the Espionage Act -- have you read it? --- is the criminally negligent handling of classified information.  "Seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation." cont