FBI, Hillary Clinton private email

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REPORT: The FBI put its 'A-team' on the 'extremely serious' Hillary Clinton email probe
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The "extremely serious" investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state is being led by an FBI "A-team," an intelligence source told Fox News.

The source said the investigation is centered around 18 US Code 793, a section of the Espionage Act related to gathering and transmitting national-defense information.

Two emails reportedly found on Clinton's server from 2009 and 2011 contained information regarded as "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information," one of the highest levels of classification.

The two emails were drawn out of a batch of 40 randomly selected from about 30,000 "work-related" emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department from her time as secretary of state, from 2009 to 2013.

Some of the information — such as communications intercepted via satellite or drone — is protected under the law 18USC798, which means they have tighter rules and higher penalties.

Massimo Calabresi of Time recently noted that the law "makes it a crime not just to knowingly mishandle such secrets, but also to use them 'in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States.'"

As a result, the FBI's investigation has gone "way beyond what the intelligence community's Inspector General ever would do," a senior intelligence official familiar with the case told Time.

Earlier this month the New York Times shed light on the FBI's "unusual" decision to run the investigation out of its headquarters in Washington, DC.

"Nearly all [FBI] investigations are assigned to one of the bureau’s 56 field offices," according to The Times.

"But given this inquiry’s importance, senior FBI officials have opted to keep it closely held in Washington in the agency’s counterintelligence section, which investigates how national security secrets are handled."

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The FBI's headquarters since 1974, in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in DC.

Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer recently noted the possibility that Clinton skirted the law by having classified information on her private server has turned off some of her supporters in the White House.

"Most of the senior administration officials I know think she'd be an extremely competent president but have a hard time squaring that with her believing she's above the law," Bremmer told Business Insider.

"The latest facts around this email scandal hits the bullseye on that issue, and it's not going to go away," Bremmer said.

One administration official went as far as to tell Bremmer, "If I did what Hillary did, I think I'd be in jail."

Clinton has repeatedly insisted she never sent or received classified information at the time it was classified.

"Well, all I can tell you is what I've been telling you for months, which has the benefit of being true and factual. And that is that I never sent any classified material nor received any marked classified," Hillary Clinton told reporters on Friday.

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A government legal source told Fox that government regulations applying to government employees holding a clearance to not distinguish between potentially classified information being sent and received.

"Regardless of whether Mrs. Clinton sent or received this information, the obligations under the law are that she had to report any questions concerning this material being classified," Chris Farrell, a former Army counterintelligence officer who is now an investigator with Judicial Watch, told Fox. "There is no wiggle room. There is no ability to go around it and say I passively received something — that's not an excuse."

Consequently, the FBI is reportedly trying to determine whether or not Clinton should have known that the information that passed through her server was top secret or classified, even if it was not marked as such at the time.

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The investigation is also looking at which aides sent sensitive information to Clinton. A detailed Reuters report last week showed how some of the information Clinton shared with colleagues was inherently classified.

"Clinton and her senior staff routinely sent foreign government information among themselves on unsecured networks several times a month, if the State Department's markings are correct," Reuters' Jonathan Allen reported. "Within the 30 email threads reviewed by Reuters, Clinton herself sent at least 17 emails that contained this sort of information."

That could lead to trouble for Clinton's team.

"Anybody who knowingly emailed classified material to Clinton or her top aides when she was secretary of state could face criminal prosecution, according to current and former U.S. national security officials," Bloomberg reported recently. "Those who inadvertently send or receive classified data could be prosecuted for gross negligence."

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Clinton's unusual email system was originally set up by a staffer during Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, replacing a server used by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

The new server was run by Bryan Pagliano, who had worked as the IT director on Hillary Clinton's campaign before joining the State Department in May 2009. In 2013 — the same year she left the State Department — Clinton hired a small Denver-based IT firm named Platte River Networks to oversee the system.

Facing criticism earlier this year for exclusively using a private server during her time as secretary of state, Clinton handed over 30,000 work-related emails for the State Department to make public.

She deleted 31,000 emails that she says were personal.​

Investigators also want to know if any sensitive information was stored on the server after she handed it over to Platte River, which is not cleared to have access to classified material.

Platte River's attorney recently said the server was "blank" when it was transferred to federal agents, according to The Washington Post, but did not clarify how that process took place.

In any case, the FBI is reportedly confident it can recover at least some of the deleted files.

[Velar Fricative]

::cringes::

I don't know what to say except that this just sounds so avoidable.

[KateAggie]

Nothing to see here. I mean, one of the sources is FOX NEWS.

It's not even 2016, and my cynicism is already full-blown. Anyone have a sound-proof room I can borrow for the next 15 months?

[josieposy]

Truthfully I don't know what to say either. I don't think it's right and maybe it will cost her the Presidency if she doesn't just come out and lay everything on the table (and even then maybe it wouldn't matter), but the alternative isn't appealing either.

[eclaires]

This bothers me because it's dumb and completely preventable. So standard Clinton fare.

[Michelle]

Since all this first came out I have been looking hard for a better candidate for president for the Democratic Party. I don't understand what motivation someone has to set up a server for WORK that is not owned and fully managed by THE EMPLOYER. All the communications are property of the US government. It should be managed on US government servers.

If her concern was more fallout from relationship drama like that which plagued her husband, she should have had a personal account only. And she could easily set it up so no communications from a .gov email address could be received. So if someone wanted to email her something private or salacious it could happen from their personal email to hers.

I haven't liked the idea that she thinks the rules don't apply to her. I don't want that in a presidential candidate.

[blink]

Well, that's not good.

[Velar Fricative]

I'll own up to still voting for her over any R if she wins the nom. This shit sucks and would be a dealbreaker if there were other worthy candidates. I will still also vote for her over any other current D candidate.

But if Biden does jump into the race? PAPA JOE 2016!

[gpw]

Aug 29, 2015 11:04:16 GMT -5 eclaires said:

This bothers me because it's dumb and completely preventable. So standard Clinton fare.

This is what makes me completely nuts.  The hubris of the Clintons.  I do love HRC and I would vote for her, but this is something that really bugs me.  

[bina]

I've never wanted to vote for Hillary, I would be interested in Sanders or Biden. I'll vote for ANYONE over Trump.
I really hate that this election feels like just picking the lesser of all the shitty choices.

[eddy]

Good thing the DNC has thrown all of their eggs into the HRC basket.

My BIL works for O'Malley and he said it is embarassing how much the party is rigging it to only support her. The four debates is a perfect example.

So annoying.

[gretchenindisguise]

Aug 29, 2015 12:56:49 GMT -5 bina said:

I've never wanted to vote for Hillary, I would be interested in Sanders or Biden. I'll vote for ANYONE over Trump.
I really hate that this election feels like just picking the lesser of all the shitty choices.

People have been saying this since I was a kid. All elections seem to end up this way.

But for me when the choice is someone who can't keep her emails in the right place (not who can't keep them safe, because lord knows our government can't do that and well, her server wasn't hacked) and someone who wants to regulate the goings on of my ute and my daughters ute or the person who wants to build a giant wall whilst bullying everyone - I'm going to go with the bad at email one.

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Hopefully all of this is making Biden inch closer to throwing his hat in.

[IIOY]

Aug 29, 2015 12:42:10 GMT -5 gpw said:

Aug 29, 2015 11:04:16 GMT -5 eclaires said:

This bothers me because it's dumb and completely preventable. So standard Clinton fare.

 The hubris of the Clintons.  

[derp]

Can someone explain what new information is in this article that wasn't already known (or assumed)?

[Michelle]

Aug 29, 2015 13:04:08 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Aug 29, 2015 12:56:49 GMT -5 bina said:

I've never wanted to vote for Hillary, I would be interested in Sanders or Biden. I'll vote for ANYONE over Trump.
I really hate that this election feels like just picking the lesser of all the shitty choices.

People have been saying this since I was a kid. All elections seem to end up this way.

But for me when the choice is someone who can't keep her emails in the right place (not who can't keep them safe, because lord knows our government can't do that and well, her server wasn't hacked) and someone who wants to regulate the goings on of my ute and my daughters ute or the person who wants to build a giant wall whilst bullying everyone - I'm going to go with the bad at email one.

except her action was ILLEGAL.

AND she had enough experience to know wayyyyyy better.

[Michelle]

Aug 29, 2015 15:14:15 GMT -5 derp said:

Can someone explain what new information is in this article that wasn't already known (or assumed)?

that they seem to have discovered there were emails with the subject line of classified, which sort of refutes her saying she never sent or received classified info on that server.

[derp]

Aug 29, 2015 15:16:16 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Aug 29, 2015 15:14:15 GMT -5 derp said:

Can someone explain what new information is in this article that wasn't already known (or assumed)?

that they seem to have discovered there were emails with the subject line of classified, which sort of refutes her saying she never sent or received classified info on that server.

Ok, I had missed that latter detail. Thanks!

[sangria]

This surprises me not at all.

This election sucks already.

[FloFTW]

Uuuuuuugh come the fuck on, Hillary Clinton.

[Deleted]

I have zero excitement about any candidates at this point. We still have over a year to go, can we start over?

[tacosforlife]

I've been day drinking. Can someone summarize? Please use small words. kthxbai

[gretchenindisguise]

Aug 29, 2015 15:14:34 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Aug 29, 2015 13:04:08 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

People have been saying this since I was a kid. All elections seem to end up this way.

But for me when the choice is someone who can't keep her emails in the right place (not who can't keep them safe, because lord knows our government can't do that and well, her server wasn't hacked) and someone who wants to regulate the goings on of my ute and my daughters ute or the person who wants to build a giant wall whilst bullying everyone - I'm going to go with the bad at email one.

except her action was ILLEGAL.

AND she had enough experience to know wayyyyyy better.

And that's what is the scariest - the person who has potentially done something illegal is the better option because of what the others want to do.

Look it sucks. I wish with all my might she hadn't done it. But at the end of the day, what she did is less bad for our country than what the other side wants to do.

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Ready for Bernie

[UMaineTeach]

Aug 29, 2015 17:52:22 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

I've been day drinking. Can someone summarize? Please use small words. kthxbai

She said "I did not have classified email relations with that server, my server"

The FBI said, "we found the classified email in a random DNA test batch of 40/30,000, so we're pretty sure you did"

She repeats the above statement.

[10nille]

At least she can't blame a right wing conspiracy, this is her own undoing, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Dem's who want Biden are cheering.

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Aug 29, 2015 19:04:00 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

Aug 29, 2015 17:52:22 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

I've been day drinking. Can someone summarize? Please use small words. kthxbai

She said "I did not have classified email relations with that server, my server"

The FBI said, "we found the classified email in a random DNA test batch of 40/30,000, so we're pretty sure you did"

She repeats the above statement.

Maybe I misunderstood but I think she is saying the info in the email wasn't technically classified at the time? 

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Aug 29, 2015 13:04:08 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Aug 29, 2015 12:56:49 GMT -5 bina said:

I've never wanted to vote for Hillary, I would be interested in Sanders or Biden. I'll vote for ANYONE over Trump.
I really hate that this election feels like just picking the lesser of all the shitty choices.

People have been saying this since I was a kid. All elections seem to end up this way.

But for me when the choice is someone who can't keep her emails in the right place (not who can't keep them safe, because lord knows our government can't do that and well, her server wasn't hacked) and someone who wants to regulate the goings on of my ute and my daughters ute or the person who wants to build a giant wall whilst bullying everyone - I'm going to go with the bad at email one.

This is why we need Biden to enter the race. I wonder if he I e waiting for her to be charged with something? Because I wouldn't hold my breath. The Clintons are slippery fish, lol.

[oscarnerdjulief]

Aug 29, 2015 19:19:05 GMT -5 @koko said:

I am more excited to see who wins the next Big Brother than who wins this election.

And I don't even watch Big Brother.

Oh, you should watch it.  I'm really into Big Brother.  It's coming down the stretch where there will be two powerful trios pitted against each other: Steve/John/Vanessa and Liz/Austin/Julia.

[Michelle]

Aug 29, 2015 19:04:00 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

Aug 29, 2015 17:52:22 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

I've been day drinking. Can someone summarize? Please use small words. kthxbai

She said "I did not have classified email relations with that server, my server"

The FBI said, "we found the classified email in a random DNA test batch of 40/30,000, so we're pretty sure you did"

She repeats the above statement.

Here lies Michellebelle RIP