…expands to public corruption:
This new investigative track is in addition to the focus on classified material found on Clinton’s personal server.
“The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed,” one source said.
One intelligence source told Fox News that FBI agents would be “screaming” if a prosecution is not pursued because “many previous public corruption cases have been made and successfully prosecuted with much less evidence than what is emerging in this investigation.”
Meh. Laws are for the little people.
[Update a while later]
Guy Benson has a roundup of everything she’s being investigated for.
Basically, it starts with the massive mishandling of confidential and classified information, which has resulted in multiple counts of obstruction of justice. And a large part of the reason for all of the obstruction of justice was to hide all of the collusion and corruption between the Clinton Foundation and foreign nations while she was Secretary of State. She planned all this from the very beginning, even before becoming SoS. She just figured she’d get away with it, because she got away with so many felonies in the 90s.
[Update a few more minutes later]
The email scandal goes nuclear:
…the June 8, 2011 Blumenthal report doesn’t read like CIA material at all, in other words human intelligence or HUMINT, but very much like signals intelligence or SIGINT. (For the differences see here). I know what SIGINT reports look like, because I used to write them for the National Security Agency, America’s biggest source of intelligence. SIGINT reports, which I’ve read thousands of, have a very distinct style and flavor to them and Blumenthal’s write-up matches it, right down to the “Source Comments,” which smack very much of NSA reporting and its “house rules.”
But is this an NSA assessment? If so, it would have to be classified at least Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information, a handling caveat that applies to most SIGINT, and quite possibly Top Secret/SCI, the highest normal classification we have. In that case, it was about as far from Unclassified as it’s possible for an email to be.
No surprise, NSA is aflutter this weekend over this strange matter. One Agency official expressed to me “at least 90 percent confidence” that Mr. Blumenthal’s June 8 report was derived from NSA reports, and the Agency ought to be investigating the matter right now.
I suspect it is.
Popcorn. If all this fades away with no result, I am going to acknowledge those who think that Fox is worthless. If FBI recommends indictment I am going to acknowledge those who think that the rest of MSM is worthless.
Fox has no better reporter than Catherine Herridge. She rarely, if ever, gets it wrong.
I think we may see a rope a dope. There are so many things Lynch can agree to pursue for prosecution: Corruption, mishandling classified data, lying to Congress. But (as noted by a few in the previous thread) these behaviors aren’t equally bad and some might not even be unlawful. Lynch needs only prosecute against the least damaging and most difficult to win to suck up all the necessary oxygen to keep the other investigations burning.
This worked for Bill previously. Although he was tried for obstruction of justice, because he lied to prevent Paula Jones from having her day in court with him as defendant; Bill convinced everyone it was that he just lied about Monica. Obviously lying about a consensual affair is a lesser crime than an assault (see all those down playing mass assaults including rapes as nothing but minor assaults by a few). Paula Jones and Monica Lewenski were hardly the worst lapses of Bill’s ethical character with harm to the United States. Alas, they became the crime he was noted as committing.
Hillary might get prosecuted, but it will be for something few care gets brought to justice.
I hope to be wrong.
I’m leaning toward the theory that Ace (I think) put forward that the investigation is meant to exonerate Hillary while giving the appearance of due diligence. That follows fairly close to your speculation.
If the FBI is going to investigate Clintonista corruption, that strikes me as shaping up to be a long, long investigation.
Yeah, with the investigation results not being released until well after this November.
Just to ward off any objections from Jim, I want to remind everyone that: “It’s not the nature of the evidence, but the seriousness of the charges.”
Clarence Thomas with an unsubstantiated story of a pubic hair on a Coke can was taken more seriously than e-mails written by Hillary instructing someone else to commit a felony. It’s difficult to keep a straight face in these farcical times…
If the FBI goes off the same sanitized set of emails that Hillary provided, they might not find anything. It is shocking that the one about stripping designations before sending made it through the cleansing process. But if they somehow managed to recover the ones she deleted, it could be game on.
That one email, before a reasonable judge and jury, should be enough to convict on a felony charge. Not that the regime would allow such a reasonable judge and jury to hear the case.
Why do people assume that the FBI is above politics? The entire history of the agency, going back to J. Edgar Hoover, contradicts that.