"Inside the FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton’s E-Mail" Time Magazine

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http://time.com/4276988/jim-comey-hillary-clinton/

FBI director Jim Comey first investigated the Clintons 20 years ago

Late last summer, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, met with John Giacalone, the bureau official responsible for everything from counterterrorism to counterintelligence across the U.S. Giacalone, a fireplug of a man who started out as a New York City field agent battling organized crime in the 1990s, wanted to brief Comey on a high-profile issue that had been referred to the bureau by the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. Emails found on the private, unclassified server used by Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State contained classified information; Giacalone’s National Security Branch wanted to investigate how the secrets got there and whether anyone had committed a crime in the process. Comey was clear about one thing. “He wanted to make sure it was treated the same way as all other cases,” says Giacalone, who left the bureau in February.

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Comey’s recommendation to Lynch, when it comes, could include a description of the evidence; what laws, if any, might have been violated; and how confident he is in the results of the probe, the sources familiar with the investigation tell TIME. What will come of the Comey primary? Says Giacalone: “If the evidence is there, it’s there. If it leads to something inconclusive, or nothing, he’s not going to recommend filing charges.”

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1. These are the reasons Hillary hired a Criminal Defense Lawyer

18 U.S.C. § 1924 Unauthorized Removal And Retention Of Classified Documents Or Material
18 U.S.C. § 793 Gathering, Transmitting Or Losing Defense Information
18 U.S.C. § 2071 Concealment, Removal, Or Mutilation Generally
18 U.S.C. § 1519 Destruction, Alteration, Or Falsification Of Records In Federal Investigations And Bankruptcy
18 U.S.C. §§ 798. Disclosure of classified information
44 U.S.C. § 3101. Federal Records Act
2 U.S.C. § 192. Refusal of witness to testify or produce papers

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2. Another current player Hillary tangled with in the past is Loretta Lynch.

Pro Publica: On: Hillary's Secrecy and Lack of Transparency
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1718440

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1) 1992: The Commodity Trades

During Bill Clinton's first run for the White House, his campaign declined to release all of the couple's tax returns. Later it emerged that the campaign had weighed requests from the press and decided not to do so, because a few of the returns showed Hillary Clinton's spectacular success in commodities trading, in which she made almost $100,000 from an initial investment of $1,000 in a matter of months for a return of almost 10,000 percent. Hillary Clinton threatened a campaign lawyer who had access to the material with retribution if she released the data: "You'll never work in Democratic politics again," the lawyer, Loretta Lynch, says Clinton told her. It wasn't until 1994, as the New York Times prepared to publish an article detailing the trades, that the Clintons made public the returns.

Unbelievable!

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4. How did I miss that?! Lynch and Comey

I knew from the Time article about Comey having been an investigator of Whitewater and of Marc Rich. The run in with Lynch back then makes this investigation really, really interesting. The fact that we even know about Lynch is very telling. Not likely either would just look the other way.

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3. The server bit is going to be the most trouble.

She thought all the deleted emails were gone, but they were backed up and now the FBI has them.

In the meantime, she said this on March 10, 2015 --

http://time.com/3739541/transcript-hillary-clinton-email-press-conference/?iid=sr-link1

QUESTION: Did you or any of your aides delete any government- related e-mails from your personal account? And what lengths are you willing to go to to prove that you didn’t?

Some people, including supporters of yours, have suggested having an independent arbiter look at your server, for instance.

CLINTON: We did not. In fact, my direction to conduct the thorough investigation was to err on the side of providing anything that could be possibly viewed as work related.

That doesn’t mean they will be by the State Department once the State Department goes through them, but out of an abundance of caution and care, you know, we wanted to send that message unequivocally.

That is the responsibility of the individual and I have fulfilled that responsibility, and I have no doubt that we have done exactly what we should have done. When the search was conducted, we were asking that any email be identified and preserved that could potentially be federal records, and that’s exactly what we did.

And we went, as I said, beyond that. And the process produced over 30,000 you know, work emails, and I think that we have more than met the requests from the State Department. The server contains personal communications from my husband and me, and I believe I have met all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private and I think that the State Department will be able, over time, to release all of the records that were provided.

Evidence of pay-for-play? Bets?