Famed Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz told
Newsmax TV on Thursday that the Justice Department's disclosure that Hillary Clinton broke no laws in using a private email account proved that "legally, she was always in the clear."
"Well, I hate to say I told you so," Dershowitz said on "The Daily Wrap."
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He was discussing the department's filing with a federal judge with hosts Joe Concha, Rick Ungar and Amy Holmes.
"The law requires that you have to know that what you're doing is illegal, there has to have been classification notifications," he said. "She was right when she said that there was nothing illegal about what she did at the time she did it and nothing that she had on her email was marked classified.
"That doesn't mean it was good judgment," Dershowitz cautioned. "She's now acknowledged that she wished she hadn't done it. But the case is over as a legal case for all intents and purposes.
"She was never the target of any investigation. What she did was entirely legal," he added. "Now, the public has the right to judge her on whether what she did was right or wrong as a matter of judgment, whether she'd done enough to apologize.
"That's a fair point politically."
Dershowitz also disputed whether Clinton was exonerated on a technicality.
"She's off the hook from the law. The law is not a technicality any more than the Constitution is a technicality," he told Newsmax. "You can't be criminally prosecuted for doing something that was not unlawful at the time.
"But, we can learn from experience and change the law — and I think they ought to do that."