Reports: FBI So Far Finds No Malicious Intent In Clinton Email Probe

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at Uncle Nancy's Coffee House in Newton, Iowa. After spending the first few mon... FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at Uncle Nancy's Coffee House in Newton, Iowa. After spending the first few months of her campaign bemoaning "secret, unaccountable money" in politics, Clinton is coming out Tuesday, Sept. 8, with proposals to roll back the effects of the landmark Supreme Court case governing campaign finance won by conservative activist group Citizens United. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) MORE LESS
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

FBI agents and federal prosecutors tasked with looking into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state have yet to find evidence that Clinton intentionally broke classification rules, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Anonymous U.S. officials close to the investigation told the Post and CNN that interviews with top Clinton aides in recent weeks yielded no indication that Clinton willfully violated U.S. law. Longtime adviser Huma Abedin was among those interviewed, according to CNN.

“From the start, Hillary Clinton has offered to answer any questions that would help the Justice Department complete its review, and we hope and expect that anyone else who is asked would do the same,” Clinton’s presidential campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, said in a statement to the Post. “We are confident the review will conclude that nothing inappropriate took place.”

The FBI investigation reportedly has been focused on the security of the server and whether classified information was mishandled on the server.

Once the FBI’s probe is complete, the findings will be turned over to the Justice Department, who will then decide whether or not anyone involved will face charges, according to CNN.

A federal judge also said this week that the Democratic candidate may still be deposed about her use of the server in a civil case brought by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch.

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. I’m sure another couple dozen hearings and $100M in tax payer money will be needed to come to this conclusion again and again.

    The wing nuts have an interesting dichotomy on their hands. On one hand, they think Hillary is going to be indicted “any day now”. On the other, they think the DOJ is corrupt and in the tank for Obama. Which one is it? You can’t have both. Except in wing nut land.

  2. But but but…it MUST be a COVERUP…all of the Republicans with no facts or anything have deemed her guilty AND evil!

  3. Their investigation coming to a close is the worst possible scenario. They know that she was never under investigation, but as long as the FBI had an open investigation, it was a blank canvass that they could toss any and everything upon.

    Once it’s done and they come back with…“No, she wasn’t under investigation, and no, there were no laws broken”, they are only left with “the FBI is covering up!”. And that squirrel doesn’t have legs and won’t run. Anybody in Congress who reads or is forced to read the report is going to have to disavow that theory.

  4. Well no shit, Sherlocks.

  5. But…but…but Whitewater…Monica Lewinsky…al Qaeda.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

163 more replies

Participants

Avatar for lestatdelc Avatar for alliebean Avatar for ajm Avatar for kidzmom1 Avatar for pluckyinky Avatar for littlegirlblue Avatar for chammy Avatar for thunderhawk Avatar for voreason Avatar for bradbennett Avatar for mantan Avatar for sniffit Avatar for daveyjones64 Avatar for sonsofares Avatar for gr Avatar for left_in_washington_state Avatar for geofu54 Avatar for darcy Avatar for kitty Avatar for smokinthegotp Avatar for thunderclapnewman Avatar for edhedh Avatar for ljb860 Avatar for owlcroft

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: