CNN and MSNBC confirm Hillary Clinton will not face any charges in email inquiry

[thesquanderer]

248. re "Taking a deal means the guilty party spills the beans"

Actually, plea deals generally have nothing to do with spilling beans. You may be mixing it up with immunity? People agree to plea deals all the time... someone pleads guilty to a lesser charge (eliminating the risk of being convicted of something worse), the government benefits because they eliminate the risk of losing the case entirely, plus they free up money and time to spend on other things. That's not to say that, as part of the deal, he may not have agreed to cooperate in some further investigation, but it's not something we know for sure, it's not automatically the case.

In any event, even assuming you're right and he agreed to cooperate in an investigation as part of the plea, it would logically be an investigation of someone else. There's no point in agreeing to "cooperate" in further investigation against yourself. First, you have a right against self-incrimination. Second, by accepting the plea, you've already been convicted and are serving the time for that crime. So there's no point in further trying to prove you're guilty of what you've already pled guilty to, nor can they compel testimony to find you guilty of something else. Honestly, your whole "taking a deal" paragraph sounds like fiction.

Beyond that, it really seems like a stretch to believe the FBI is interviewing all these people on Clinton's staff--and Clinton herself--in order to further incriminate Guccifer. In part because, yes, he has already accepted the plea bargain which should essentially close that case, but also, the thing all these people have in common is not Guccifer, it's Clinton. As far as we know, they haven't called in all the other people Guccifer hacked.