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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FBI made clear Hillary Clinton is not the target of their investigation, so your whole bullshit premise fails. Republican desperation is showing. [/quote]
Where do you get this? Link?  They most certainly seem be be investigating Hillary and her e-mails.[/quote]
It's reported in several places that Clinton is not the target of the investigation.  Here is one example - http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-prez-clinton-emails-q-and-a-html-htmlstory.html
[quote][i]Can Clinton face criminal charges?[/i]
Law enforcement officials have said [u]Clinton is not the target of any criminal investigation[/u] and so far, no one has produced evidence that she violated any law.

The FBI has received a "security" referral from the inspectors general and is [i]looking at whether people who sent emails to her may have violated security regulations[/i] and whether they exposed U.S. secrets to potential spying by foreign powers. If Clinton received secret information from staff over her personal email, that may have violated security rules, but it might be difficult to show she knew any of the information was classified at the time she received it.

Even a relatively low-level misdemeanor charge for mishandling classified information would require proof that Clinton knew she was keeping government secrets at "an unauthorized location." But she could argue that she didn’t know the information was secret at the time.[/quote]
In short, the targets of the FBI investigation are (1) anyone who sent an email to Clinton that contained classified info, and ultimately (2) the people at State who provided the classified info to the people who sent it to Clinton, but failed to mark it classified.

The Washington Times (no friend of Clinton) had a pretty detailed piece with sources describing how someone at State looked at classified information on a "gapped" computer (i.e., a computer that is highly protected against intrusion) and copied relevant details from the classified reports into a summary memo, but [i]failed to mark the summary memo classified[/i].  That summary memo circulated among various State employees and Clinton's team, before someone ultimately forwarded it to Clinton herself.  If that reporting is accurate, then the person who screwed up (and who ultimately faces the biggest risk of criminal charges) is the State Department employee who wrote the original memo without properly citing his classified sources.  His error meant that no one reading the memo would know it originally derived from classified materials.[/quote]

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