Posted on 07/01/2016 4:56:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
Hillary Clinton could be interviewed in the coming days as part of the federal investigation into her “homebrew” email setup.
The rumored interview could indicate the FBI is in the final stages of its investigation and comes after Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that she would defer to investigators and prosecutors in deciding whether to press charges.
Multiple current and former aides to Clinton have reportedly answered the FBI’s questions in recent months, in what appeared to be a path leading to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee herself.
According to ABC News
, the Justice Department's goal is to complete its probe and issue recommendations on whether charges should be filed before the two major party conventions occur later this month.
The Daily Caller , which first reported the interview, said Clinton is scheduled to meet with the FBI Saturday. Its source added the talk could occur at Clinton's residence in Washington, D.C.
Clinton does not have any campaign events listed on her schedule for the weekend, presumably making an interview within that window easier to coordinate.
The interview has been expected for weeks and could help provide final information that federal officials need to decide whether to press ahead with charges — a decision that could amount to a political earthquake.
Roughly 1 in 15 of the approximately 30,000 emails that Clinton gave to the federal government from her private server for safekeeping have been classified at some level. Another 22 were classified as top secret, the highest level of sensitivity.
Bryan Pagliano, the IT official believed to have set up and maintained Clinton’s server in the basement of her New York home, has been granted limited immunity deals in order to assist with the investigation.
Legal experts have speculated that the high bar for prosecutors to prove that Clinton’s setup was designed to thwart federal security laws could make it difficult to indict her. But the investigation has been underway for more than a year, raising speculation about what officials may have discovered.
On Friday, Lynch acknowledged that her 30-minute, private meeting with Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, had cast a pallor over the investigation, with Republicans questioning her neutrality.
In the face of the criticism, Lynch on Friday said that she would accept whatever recommendations were handed to her by FBI investigators and Justice Department prosecutors.
"Instead of pleading the 5th, she'll drink it...."
I just have a hard time believing any of this...on a Saturday, and a Holiday weekend, just doesn’t fit to me...
I’m doing everything I can to promote Trump and tear down the Clintons and nothing would make me happier than to see them and their ilk in prison for LIFE!!!
Kabuki theater. Failure Beyond Imagination (FBI), on of America’s greatest law enforcement agencies, is endorsing 1/2 the greatest crime couple in the history of the republic.
We have descended into 3rd world superpower. Criminals have taken over the republic.
I am betting it will be postponed. For some ridiculous reason of course.
Yep, it’s hard to believe the FBI would investigate this long and then interview her on a holiday weekend.
Great timing! And at her mansion even.
Ask a couple questions like: What’s your name? Were you SOS? Do you ever fib about anything?
No? Great! Let’s fire up the barbee, get some burgers brats and beer.
HeeHaw!
Kool-Aid will be served.
Transcript of meeting
Hello Mrs. Clinton
I don’t recall-236 times
Thank you for your time Mrs. Clinton
Frankly I’m hoping that the corrupt Obama regime will let Hillary skate. The backlash will stall any chance she may have of beating Trump and she will be a much weaker candidate than Biden or Warren. It’s conceivable that the newly installed Trump administration might focus on the many rats that have violated the law these past 8 years including the Clintonbillies.
Like to see the Clintons seek refuge in North Korea?
Many will not be sober enough to remember the weekend
Pretty much four Friday late afternoon back to back.
They should do it in NY so they could take a leak in the server room too.
What is the Guiness Book of World Records for invoking the 5th ??
---I don't recall.
---You mean, like, with a cloth?
Clinton: Just say you will accept the FBI report
Lynch: And?
Clinton: That’s it. They’ve been taken care of. There won’t be any problem.
Good point....but on that narrow point, I think the demonRats lose either way. One thing about the meeting between the bent one and Lynch, it becomes 1. An opportunity for delay and 2. An opportunity for Lynch to recuse herself on something that she doesn't want to rule on anyway. Neither of those possibilities can be allowed to happen.
Does it matter?
There will be a new record holder crowned Saturday afternoon
I don't know why media keeps repeating statements like this. The bar is not whether she intended to thwart law but whether laws were broken, period. You could also ask whether she could reasonably have known of the risks when she made that set up. That may be why she played dumb about it "what, wiped like with a cloth?" etc. Or you could ask not just whether she should have known, but being ignorant of the ramifications she should have deferred judgement on the setup to experts. She pressed for this setup in the face of resistance from her own team, in spite of warnings and so on.
Doesn't mean they will recommend prosecution. Political interference by FBI is an interesting, possibly dangerous turn of events. They may want to defer to the body politic and let the public decide if she should be President if only because they don't want to open pandoras box of precedent where the FBI investigates major party nominees. I know, she brought this all on herself, and really her party should have drummed her out of the primary rather than rally behind her and squeeze competitors out.
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