Will she be indicted before she gets nominated? Only her hairdresser Santa knows for sure…
Via The Hill:
The Justice Deparment has been asked to open a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State, the New York Times reported late Thursday.
The request by two inspectors general follows a June 29 memo to State Department Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy that found Clinton’s email server held “hundreds of potentially classified emails.”
Update:
Via Breitbart:
An Inspector General review of emails in Hillary Clinton’s inbox found at least four instances where information she received should have been considered secret at the time she received it. The matter has now been referred to the FBI.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Inspector General only looked at a small sample of Hillary’s inbox, just 40 emails. Of those 40, four were found to have information classified “secret.” A spokesperson for the IG told the WSJ the emails “were classified when they were sent and are classified now.”
Though the remainder of Hillary’s email has not been reviewed yet, the suggestion is that there are probably many more “secret” or even “top-secret” emails among the tens of thousands still to be examined. Based on this, the Inspector General concluded Clinton should not have been using a “homebrew” email server and should instead have been using a classified system run by the State Department.
The two IGs released a joint statement explaining that the referral was not criminal in nature, “it was a security referral made for counterintelligence purposes.”
Here’s the full statement from I. Charles McCullough, III and Steve Linick:
Yesterday the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG) sent a congressional notification to intelligence oversight committees updating them of the IC IG support to the State Department IG [attached].
The IC IG found four emails containing classified IC-derived information in a limited sample of 40 emails of the 30,000 emails provided by former Secretary Clinton. The four emails, which have not been released through the State FOIA process, did not contain classification markings and/or dissemination controls. These emails were not retroactively classified by the State Department; rather these emails contained classified information when they were generated and, according to IC classification officials, that information remains classified today. This classified information should never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system.
IC IG made a referral detailing the potential compromise of classified information to security officials within the Executive Branch. The main purpose of the referral was to notify security officials that classified information may exist on at least one private server and thumb drive that are not in the government’s possession. An important distinction is that the IC IG did not make a criminal referral––it was a security referral made for counterintelligence purposes. The IC IG is statutorily required to refer potential compromises of national security information to the appropriate IC security officials.