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Department of Justice officials have impaneled a federal grand jury in the Hillary Clinton email case and FBI agents have launched a second, separate investigation on political corruption involving the former secretary of state's official activities and the Clinton Foundation, a former U.S. attorney told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Joseph E. diGenova, who served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for four years, said Wednesday he believes the FBI is investigating two separate Clinton scandals. "The Bureau has between 100 and 150 agents assigned to the case. They would not have that many people assigned to a...

Hillary Clinton insisted Wednesday night that she would not be indicted over her email controversy, firing back at debate moderators who asked whether she would drop out of the contest under those circumstances. "Oh for goodness, that is not going to happen," Clinton said. "I'm not even answering that question." (VIDEO-AT-LINK)Republicans have made Clinton's use of a personal email server during her time as President Barack Obama's secretary of state a cornerstone in their argument that she is not qualified to be president. The FBI is currently investigating whether Clinton's use of the server broke any laws.

Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro, twin brother of rumored Hillary Clinton vice presidential short-lister Julian Castro, claimed on CNN's "State Of The Union" that Clinton has been "cleared" by the Justice Department for her handling of classified material and her secret, private email server. Castro told the roundtable, "It's been settled by the Congress. The Congress has looked into it. The Justice Department has looked into it, and they've cleared her." Host Dana Bash pointed out Clinton has not been cleared, and that the investigation is ongoing. "The Department of Justice is looking into it," Bash said. Radio host Hugh...

. . . Mrs. Clinton’s . . . book “Hard Choices” . . . is a road map to bring Mrs. Clinton to justice by her own hand. . . . Mrs. Clinton emphasizes, in detail, the rigorous security measures she was subject to as secretary of state . . . She specifically acknowledges security breaches of home computers by hackers. She writes that “people of good faith understand the need for sensitive diplomatic communications to protect . . . the national interest.” . . . She forcefully condemns the illegal disclosure of classified material by third parties, e.g., WikiLeaks.

On the same day that the “hacktivist” group WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of classified State Department communications online, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a top deputy to send now-classified information to her personal email address, newly released emails reveal.“Here’s my personal email,” Clinton told former Sen. George Mitchell, then Clinton’s special envoy for Middle East peace. “Pls use this for reply.”Mitchell responded with details of discussions with Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini. Most of the contents of the email, released by the State Department on Monday night, are redacted pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act exemption designed...

This afternoon Democratic presidential frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with host Chris Matthews to discuss the missing emails from her time as Secretary of State. Following is a transcript of that interview which airs at 6 pm tonight on MSNBC.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responded to a question on whether she tried to wipe her server with “What, like with a cloth or something?” During a press conference on Tuesday.Hillary was asked if she tried to wipe the entire server so there would be no personal or work emails on it. She answered, “Well, my personal emails are my personal business, right? So, I — so we went through a painstaking process and turned over 55,000 pages of anything we thought could be work-related. Under the law, that decision is made by the official. I was the official. I...

During a campaign appearance in Iowa, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angrily denounced Republicans for trying to bring her down by demanding answers for her deleted email server and her failure to prevent the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. Clinton made her remarks at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding Dinner, launching a partisan defense of her record. Choking up and coughing, after speaking well over her allotted 20 minute speaking slot, she began criticizing Republicans for attacking her for decades referring to the attacks the brought the Citizens United lawsuit to the Supreme Court. “Now I’m in their crosshairs again,”...