Posted on 08/29/2015 7:46:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The "extremely serious" investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state is being led by an FBI "A-team," an intelligence source told Fox News.
The source said the investigation is centered around 18 US Code 793, a section of the Espionage Act related to gathering and transmitting national-defense information.
Two emails reportedly found on Clinton's server from 2009 and 2011 contained information regarded as "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information," one of the highest levels of classification.
The two emails were drawn out of a batch of 40 randomly selected from about 30,000 "work-related" emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department from her time as secretary of state, from 2009 to 2013.
Some of the information — such as communications intercepted via satellite or drone — is protected under the law 18USC798, which means they have tighter rules and higher penalties.
Massimo Calabresi of Time recently noted that the law "makes it a crime not just to knowingly mishandle such secrets, but also to use them 'in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States.'"
As a result, the FBI's investigation has gone "way beyond what the intelligence community's Inspector General ever would do," a senior intelligence official familiar with the case told Time.
Earlier this month the New York Times shed light on the FBI's "unusual" decision to run the investigation out of its headquarters in Washington, DC.
"Nearly all [FBI] investigations are assigned to one of the bureau’s 56 field offices," according to The Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
“REPORT: The FBI put its ‘A-team’ on the ‘extremely serious’ Hillary Clinton email probe”
Until they find something. Then it won’t be.
Yeah sure.....I’ll believe it when I see her, Huma and Cheryl and David Kendall in PRISON!!!
Looks like Obama is hanging Hillary out to dry.
I hope my doubts that they will nail the wicked _itch are proven wrong.
If Biden gets in, Hillary will be prosecuted. Wait for it.
This will never be prosecuted. At best, there will be sacrificial goat for Hillary.
There is no rule of law in the US anymore, it is a rule by individuals in power.
It is corrupt to the core.
It will go on her Permanent Record.
And there is no way the Just-us Dept will file charges.
Or we will hear Hillary say, “I can’t comment about an ongoing investigation.” ad nauseum.
Maybe not. She’ll be told to drop out or else, then she’ll claim health problems, then go away.
2 out of 40 is 5%
5% of 30,000 is 1,500 potential classified/secret emails.
If Biden stays out, she is free. If he gets in, she goes down soon after. He knows.
Sen Grassley needs to determine:
<><> (1) whether Abedin is still on the State Dept payroll collecting govt checks (an old bureaucratic trick), and,
<><> (2) whether Abedin violated 18 U.S.C.§1027; Abedin might have made false statements and colluded to conceal activities in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
It is also possible that Abedin’s collusion w/ Hillary, and other hidden offenses could include civil and/or criminal RICO violations. Hillary allowing Abedin’s several employments could also involve BUT not be limited to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);
Possibly infractions centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c); investigations could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate and international commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
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Sen Charles Grassley's inquiry to State Dept investigator recently revealed that Huma Abedin improperly collected taxpayer dollars. Sen Grassley also inquired about Abedin's unusual employment status---whether US conflict-of-interest laws were violated when Hillary gave Abedin special employment status in which Abedin worked simultaneously for:
<><> (1) the State Department,
<><> (2) the Clinton Foundation,
<><> (3) as a private consultant,
<><> (4) consulted Teneo, a global financial firm w/ Bill Clinton a member of the board.
<><> formed her private company "Zain Endeavors,LLC" 12 days before she exited State.
Washington’s FBI division may have the top guys, but it’s also close to the White House. The report can be accelerated or suppressed, IMHO, at the behest of Obama.
It’s not like the old days when that crazy old coot J. Edgar ran his own operation, not always cooperating with the WH.
Which will lead to double-secret probation.
A big game of chicken. Obama wants Hillary to quit without charges so he doesn’t hurt the party with a criminal probe and hillary won’t quit without one. Who blinks first?
Vince Foster kicks box.
Until they find something. Then it won’t be.
I tend to disagree.....zer0 and his marxist regime HATE the Clintons. They would prefer Crazy Uncle Joe....or even Bernie as the Dhimmicrat candidate. Don't think they won't bring it all out in the open UNLESS Hillary bows out.....then she will get the royal pardon if and when zer0 relinquishes power. Just my prediction.....
Hillary Clinton > “extremely serious”
Any other smo > “criminal investigation”
Since when does the FBI ever investigate something that isn’t potentially criminal...
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