Posted on 10/15/2015 5:51:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
Three months after Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email address and server while secretary of state was referred to the FBI, an intelligence source familiar with the investigation tells Fox News that the team is now focused on whether there were violations of an Espionage Act subsection pertaining to "gross negligence" in the safekeeping of national defense information.
Under 18 USC 793 subsection F,the information does not have to be classified to count as a violation. The intelligence source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the ongoing probe, said the subsection requires the "lawful possession" of national defense information by a security clearance holder who "through gross negligence," such as the use of an unsecure computer network, permits the material to be removed or abstracted from its proper, secure location.
Subsection F also requires the clearance holder "to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer."A failure to do so "shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."
The source said investigators are also focused on possible obstruction of justice."If someone knows there is an ongoing investigation and takes action to impede an investigation, for example destruction of documents or threatening of witnesses, that could be a separate charge but still remain under a single case," the source said. Currently, the ongoing investigation is led by the Washington Field Office of the FBI.
A former FBI agent, who is not involved in the case, said the inconsistent release of emails, with new documents coming to light from outside accounts, such as that of adviser Sidney Blumenthal, could constitute obstruction. In addition, Clinton’s March statement that there was no classified material on her private server has proven false,...
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I’ll eat a Prius if the FBI investigation ever results in serious charges being brought against Hillary.
It only happens if the Chicago Mob wants to take her down.
Hillary was very deferential to Caliph Baraq in the debate.
It was obvious she’s trying to remain an ally rather than an adversary to the regime. I think we’ll know by December if the Mob is going to torpedo her.
Note the past tense. It's all over now.
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
Vote Hillary! 2028?
Bump.
Not a single agency under 0dingo’s command can be expected to render fair and impartial decisions UNLESS and UNTIL the NSA is uprooted and purged of its blackmail machine which 0dungo uses to get the outcome he seeks.
No Clinton will ever spend a day in jail.
you just have to wonder how much pressure is being put on the FBI - from various directions - to shut this thing down, or to speed it up. Can’t say I envy them, and hope they put professionalism and the country first.
Wow.
Up to ten years in prison for one count.
Huma would never see her child grow up.
Sing, Huma, sing!
Ask for a deal.
Hillary is old.
She’d be in a nursing home in a year anyway.
Amen, the pressure on them has to be immense from both directions.
Perhaps they left out the “is” as newspapers often do to save space in the headline.
At least that’s how I’m keeping hope alive.
She always skates. The best you can hope for is Trump thumps her in the election and she has to retire to her million dollar house in the Hamptons.
Dear FBI, AMERICA KNOWS HILLARY COMMITTED FELONIES JUST FROM WHAT LITTLE INFORMATION WE'VE SEEN AND BY HER OWN FALSE STATEMENTS. She's perjured HERSELF with her own statements! WE know she's guilty so WHY DON'T YOU?
If Hillary is allowed to get away with this and become President, we are ruled by a criminal oligarchy and the Republic is dead.
The FBI and, I’m sure, Trey Gowdy, are being charitable towards Madame Hillary’s email lapses and will allow enough investigatorial latitude to avoid felony charges however warranted
I agree...Even with this criminal administration of 0bama’s it’s hard to believe she’s lasted this long.
FBI turns in a report, recommending charges. DOJ sits on it and refuses to prosecute. People within DOJ or FBI leak the report/recommendations. Then things really would get interesting.
I like your scenario, especially if it happens after she has a lock on the nomination. Then it becomes her albatross.
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