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“The agents involved are under a lot of pressure and are busting a-“, an intelligence source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox News.
Reportedly, agents are looking at U.S. Code 18, Section 1001, which pertains to “materially false” statements given either in writing, orally or through a third party.
The new report comes amid multiple indications that the FBI is making the leap from inquiries and probes to a “full-blown investigation” of Clinton’s server, which was stored in a bathroom closet.
The section of the criminal code being explored is known as ‘statements or entries generally, ‘ and can be applied when an individual makes misleading or false statements causing federal agents to expend additional resources and time.
At the time, a US House of Representatives committee requested access to Clinton’s server to ensure that she had not deleted any work-related emails. A false report at the Politico website last week incorrectly stated that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was overriding the intelligence community’s classification of material contained in two Clinton emails as “Top Secret”. It’s going to be even more hard now for Clinton and her campaign to argue this is simply about emails, when in fact the probe includes Clinton’s lies. In October, internal emails from the company charged with maintaining Clinton’s server in 2013, after she left the office of secretary of state, expressed fears of a cover up. “There is no classified material”. And that person can only be Hillary Clinton. That’s what they get for investigating her in the first place.
A new set of Clinton emails was released late last month.
“Injecting politics into what is supposed to be a fact-finding inquiry leaves a foul taste in the F.B.I.’s mouth and makes them fear that no matter what they find, the Justice Department will take the president’s signal and not bring a case”, Ron Hosko, a former senior Federal Bureau of Investigation official who retired in 2014, told The Times.
“I think she’s being protected by the Democrats, by the prosecutors and possibly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation”, Donald Trump said Thursday during an interview on Fox Business when asked about the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe.
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But investigators are annoyed that the president and others passed judgment about whether Clinton’s email setup endangered national security when officials have yet to determine whether her server was compromised by foreign adversaries.
