why do you need a quid pro quo on national security violations? The quid pro quo is in the russian uranium deal. You can never prove intent if people don’t tell you, but you can certainly find a federal regulation which says the sec of state can’t take money from russians whom she recommends be given uranium rights. Sounds ike a big abuse of power, bribery in the face of it, conflict of interest.
That’s the object of the other prong of the FBI investigation.
There are two avenues here, and two subsets in one of them.
#1A, Classified materiel was passed/stored in insecure systems. > She walks with an “Admonition”
#1B, Classified materiel was passed/stored in insecure systems and people’s lives were lost, battles were lost as a result. > She is charged with a misdemeanor or minor felony and “slow walks” it into 2017.
#2: Through the emails, and probably into the CGI, then can establish an ONGOING,MULTIPLE REPETITIVE series of quid pro quo acts that benefited her, Bill, Chelsea, etc. MONETARILY, ESPECIALLY IF THEY CAN ALSO SHOW ACTS THAT ILLUSTRATE THAT THEY KNEW IT WAS WRONG, such as money laundering, hidden accounts, emails acknowledging such, then they have a potentially very serious case, but it would take a string or ongoing, related acts, at least more than a dozen, 20+ even better, and it would also be better if all were linked in some way, such as all through the same money handler, etc.
The overall legal hurdle for the FBI to clear will be if an investigation of the emails “allowed” them to reasonably assume that some of those emails indicated illegal activity in related to the CGI, therefore they looked into the activities of the CGI and discovered....