Intel source: IG report ups pressure on DOJ to seek criminal charges against Clinton
The recently released State Department inspector general report, which found Hillary Clinton broke government rules with her personal email use, increases "the likelihood and pressure" for the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges, an intelligence source familiar with the FBI investigation told Fox News.
"It is very harmful to her and increases the likelihood and pressure on DOJ to indict," said the source, who was not authorized to speak on the record. "[The IG report] is not evidence in itself, but it clears up confusion [about] Department of State rules and makes the IG a witness, and the people they interviewed, to her computer antics being done without permission."
The ongoing FBI criminal probe -- investigating Clinton's emails practices as secretary of state -- is focused on whether the more than 2,100 classified emails discovered on her server constitute a violation of federal code, including the Espionage Act’s 18 USC 793, known as the "gross negligence" statute. FBI Director James Comey plans to make a recommendation based on the evidence, and if the findings merit criminal charges, the decision to prosecute ultimately rests with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
The 83-page inspector general's report, released last week, concluded that Clinton and her team consistently broke government rules for email and record-keeping. The decision to use a personal, unsecured server exclusively for government business had the effect of moving classified information outside secure government channels.
Fox News first reported in November 2015 that another statute, 18 USC 1001, also known as the "false statements statute," was under FBI consideration. This section pertains to "materially false" statements given either in writing, orally or through a third party to a federal officer. Each felony violation is subject to five years in prison.
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The) report will be useful as rebuttal, potential evidence in 18 USC 1001 charges and establishing aspects of 18 USC 793," the source said...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/01/intel-source-ig-report-ups-pressure-on-doj-to-seek-criminal-charges-against-clinton.html#
Fox News, unfortunately, but an interesting leak nonetheless.
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you understanding how this environment where automatically you dismiss the press from the other side... would surprise me
But as I posted this morning, partisans are what they are. You are one.
I prefer to read and evaluate the information and so far, when her reporting is picked up, well I guess AP and CNN and the rest are also part of the VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY. So is the FBI, and of course Secretary Kerry.
Politics is not unlike religion, In fact, it works the same way in the brain. So all I can do is shake my head, Trust me, partisans on the other side consider Rachel Maddow a traitor to the American people who's sources are just as reliable.
Alas it is wha it is. Myself I do not like Maddow but that is becuase a 7 figure payday, has really made her very non reliable and I do not consider MSNBC to be anything but very slanted commentary at this point.
That said, I am not surprised you cannot see how this is a problem... you and your pals are in their information bunkers, while the other side in theirs. At this point, neither shares common information, maybe teh calendar is it. And perhaps not even values. Yup that is very healthy.
