No one can save Abedin.
Regardless of what the content of those emails are, she is in huge legal jeopardy by the mere fact that they are where they are.
She has violated a state department policy requiring out-going officials to turn over email records when they leave office. She also lied to the FBI when she swore to turn over all devices containing state department emails.
I expect her to be indicted. They don’t need to give her immunity. They can get information from her during a plea bargaining phase.
Huma apparently committed perjury, not of the Martha Stewart or Scooter Libby variety, but conscious lies under oath with malice aforethought.
If her immunity deal is of the ordinary kind, it is now void. Unless Obama interferes publicly and without plausible deniability, she will be indicted and arrested within days.
No one can save Abedin.
Regardless of what the content of those emails are, she is in huge legal jeopardy by the mere fact that they are where they are.
She has violated a state department policy requiring out-going officials to turn over email records when they leave office. She also lied to the FBI when she swore to turn over all devices containing state department emails.
I expect her to be indicted. They don’t need to give her immunity. They can get information from her during a plea bargaining phase.
I believe it is far worse than that....... 650k emails going back 10 years?
They have them all - this is the server backup. HRC said her attorneys reviewed all the emails and deleted 33k of them that they deemed to not be related to her position. It is a safe bet that the FBI has those now and while she told us they were all about yoga and her daughter’s wedding she was wrong. I suspect that the ones that were not turned over were the most damaging.
Furthermore....... investigators in the pay to play cases were prevented from subpoenas and search warrants for emails from the Clinton foundation. If (we all know they are) there are communications indicating contact with donors followed by public rulings by state that favor those donors this is, as Rudy G likes to say, a RICO investigation. It would involve a who’s who of the political elite, corporate elite, and banking elite. It might even involve her own son in law whose hedge fund was relying on the inside scoop from Hillary through her state connections to make money (they ended up losing a bunch) in Greece. A country with her politics.
Everything this woman touches turns to poop. Everything. There is a lot of antacids being consumed tonight on K Street and Wall Street. You can bet on that. If she goes down for bribes the “donors” do also.
This may get far uglier than it is now because the media is focused on the security implications of the emails in light of the prior statements by Comey. 650k emails may be the whole enchilada for the foundation. Hell, they may even have the foreign bank account information.
Oh, what a way to start a Monday... :D