FBI Expands Hillary Clinton e-Mail Probe
The FBI has expanded its probe into the private email arrangement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to determine if there’s any evidence she violated a federal false statements law.
According to a news report Thursday an unnamed intelligence sources say the agency is now focusing on US Code 18, Section 1001. This is a provision that pertains to “materially false” statements given either in writing, orally or through a third party, a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
The wider scope represents an expansion of the agency’s investigation that’s also looking at potential violations of an Espionage Act provision relating to “gross negligence” in the handling of national defense information.
The expanded probe follows a report earlier in the week that the FBI is stepping up the e-Mail investigation of Hillary Clinton
The section of the federal statute on false statements that may apply to Mrs. Clinton is a broad, brush statute that punishes individuals who are not direct and fulsome in their answers.
The problem for a defendant is when their statements cause the bureau to expend more time, energy, resources to de-conflict their statements with the evidence,
The media report noted that the FBI is doing its own classification review of Mrs. Clinton’s e-Mails effectively cutting out what has become a grinding process at the State Department.
One government source says the FBI is identifying suspect e-Mails, and then going directly to the agencies who originated them, and who, under the regulations, have final say on classifications.
Mrs. Clinton has been under fire for months for using a private e-Mail server while serving as US Secretary of State in the Obama administration, and has repeatedly insisted it was never used for classified information.
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