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REPORT: The FBI put its 'A-team' on the 'extremely serious' Hillary Clinton email probe
Business Insider ^ | 08/30/2015 | Natasha Bertrand and Michael B Kelley

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emailscandal; fbi; hillary
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To: SeekAndFind

“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.’”

Sounds good, until you realize the definition of “what’s in the interest of the US” has now been altered to “committing suicide”. Thus, if the goal is to destroy the US, compromising its intelligence and classified information” is actually good for the US.

Case closed. Not guilty.


61 posted on 08/29/2015 9:26:04 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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To: EEGator

Well if you multiply 2 x .40 you get .8!

Of course you DON’T do that! You do it your way using algebra. Or you can ask what is 10% of 40=4 and divide by 2, 10%/2= 5%

The check is multiplying 40 by .05. The answer is....2


62 posted on 08/29/2015 9:26:12 AM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: TomGuy

This could get interesting if a full blown civil war erupts within the Democrat party.

Hillary is having a “Nixon moment”.

Obama throws Hillary under the bus, and then Hillary starts throwing dirt on Obama.

This could get very interesting.


63 posted on 08/29/2015 9:31:59 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “A” Team has dragged it’s heals on this for more than two years. It’s a sad day in the US if that’s our best.


64 posted on 08/29/2015 9:36:30 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, tight... The FBI will get to it once they’re finished with the Lois Learner IRS investigation.

This will go no farther than keeping Hillary from getting the nomination, then all will be forgotten.

Barky’s a petulant, petty little bitch, who’s still pissed off over Hill’s 2008 campaign, and he just wants to make sure her dream of living in the White House never comes true.

Mark


65 posted on 08/29/2015 9:50:37 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; TexasCajun

2/40 = .05, which is 5%.


66 posted on 08/29/2015 9:51:43 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t give me that jibba-jabba!


67 posted on 08/29/2015 9:52:04 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: savedbygrace; TexasCajun; EEGator
2/40 = .05, which is 5%.

Yep, I stand corrected...thanks! I was multiplying instead of dividing, ugh.

68 posted on 08/29/2015 9:55:19 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: SeekAndFind
If she gets indicted, it won't be because she broke the laws of the land - it will be because her faction is out of power and has lost control of the mechanisms of justice.

So it's hard to get worked up about any investigation news when Obama's even more egregious villainies are certain to remain uninvestigated.

69 posted on 08/29/2015 9:55:24 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

LIKE


70 posted on 08/29/2015 9:56:15 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm convinced...not.

If it happens, it's because she didn't get out of the race.

71 posted on 08/29/2015 9:58:37 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: FirstFlaBn

Your take that this is about a Supreme Court position for Mooch or Barack is very interesting.

If this occurred, wouldn’t it be the first time a Supreme Court Justice was appointed whose law license had been forfeited or suspended? Which happened to Barack or to Michelle has never been entirely clear, but they are no longer members of the Bar.

My take is that they are monitoring the polls. Hillary is neither liked nor trusted by the electorate. If it looks like she can’t win, I’d say she’s outta there... whether by investigation, indictment, or self-declared health issues. Further, there is the issue of who to put in, and when. My money is not on brain-damaged Biden, nor on Sanders. I think Warren will be drafted.


72 posted on 08/29/2015 9:59:12 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind
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73 posted on 08/29/2015 9:59:27 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: joshua c
Or we will hear Hillary say, “I can’t comment about an ongoing investigation.” ad nauseum.

And then it disappears. "That is so last year!"

74 posted on 08/29/2015 9:59:53 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: TexasCajun

You forgot the other 31,000 “personal” (i.e. “blatantly corrupt and treasonous”) emails she deleted, bringing the actual totals into the tens of thousands.


75 posted on 08/29/2015 10:01:09 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
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To: JPG
Is Obama just waiting for the proper time to drop the bomb on Hillary?

Yes the day the Senate votes on the Iran Deal, Just like what the house did the day Bibi came to speak. Back stabbing sob's watch the other hand, this would be the perfect distraction...

76 posted on 08/29/2015 10:01:54 AM PDT by taildragger (It's Cruz & Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: SeekAndFind

I very much doubt that. And in the event they did, it would be to get her off, not to convict her. Hillary is not worried, she does the kind of things that would get others life in prison day in and day out. Nothing of a legal nature has happened to her in 45 years of doing the same thing she has been doing day in and day out. The only time Hillary will face justice is at the Great White Throne Judgment.


77 posted on 08/29/2015 10:05:51 AM PDT by sport
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To: SeekAndFind
FWIW, I saw this on BI yesterday and frankly they have been leaning left since Beck pointed them out as being on the cutting edge a number of years ago now.

However, when even a left-ish website gets into the details of 18USC798, perhaps ( IMHO ) that this is a warning sign the defecate is about to hit the rotary oscillator...

78 posted on 08/29/2015 10:08:44 AM PDT by taildragger (It's Cruz & Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: Vaquero

Head fake to Biden. Prosecution begins on Hitlery. Biden “bows out” without the energy, loss of son, etc. Enter O”Malley and former VA. Sen. Jim Webb. It could happen and the inside the beltway bandit lib-0hs would love it, as well as the mil-indust-medical complex beltway types and media.


79 posted on 08/29/2015 10:16:12 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary will end her campaign “for health reasons” and pass the torch to Biden/Warren or O’Malley/Warren organization. All investigations and charges will be dropped and the media will never say another word on the subject.


80 posted on 08/29/2015 10:19:55 AM PDT by flamberge (All things considered)
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