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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][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]

The FBI is investigating the security of her email system. The investigation was launched after a non-criminal referral from the Justice Department. You can be forgiven for misunderstanding this because the "liberal" New York Times misreported it at the time and most of the media followed its lead. Clinton herself is not a target of the investigation. Of course, none of this means that the FBI couldn't uncover something criminal involving Clinton. But, the FBI can only recommend charges. It is up to the DOJ to press them. In the case of General Petraeus, the FBI recommended much stronger charges than the DOJ decided to bring. So, going by that precedent, Clinton probably has little cause for concern.
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Don't quite know how to respond to this.  The FBI does not investigate computer servers. They investigate the people who put them together and the folks that communicate on them. HRC may well be as innocent as a newborn lamb on this, but paraphrasing their vendor in Colorado , "This looks like some shaddy shit".  We'll see in due time.[/quote]

They are investigating whether the servers were ever compromised, and whether that might have revealed classified information or otherwise jeopardized national security. If they discover that did happen, the next step will be to determine who is culpable, whether it was intentional or deliberate, etc., and then whether charges should be filed.[/quote]

I have read that there is more to it than what you think.  I know you will question the source, and I am posting it anyway.  Catherine Herridge is an excellent reporter.

[quote]Three months after Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email address and server while secretary of state was referred to the FBI, an intelligence source familiar with the investigation tells Fox News that the team is now focused on whether there were violations of an Espionage Act subsection pertaining to “gross negligence” in the safekeeping of national defense information. Under 18 USC 793 subsection F, the information does not have to be classified to count as a violation. The intelligence source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the ongoing probe, said the subsection requires the “lawful possession” of national defense information by a security clearance holder who “through gross negligence,” such as the use of an unsecure computer network, permits the material to be removed or abstracted from its proper, secure location. Subsection F also requires the clearance holder “to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer. “A failure to do so “shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.” A former FBI agent, who is not involved in the case, said the inconsistent release of emails, with new documents coming to light from outside accounts, such as that of adviser Sidney Blumenthal, could constitute obstruction. In addition, Clinton’s March statement that there was no classified material on her private server has proven false, after more than 400 emails containing classified information were documented. [/quote]

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/425683/fbi-looking-gross-negligence-laws-hillary-server-investigation-jim-geraghty[/quote]

What exactly am I supposedly missing?[/quote]

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