PolitiFact: What we know about the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails

[Uncle Joe]

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So is it an "inquiry" or is it an "investigation"? While Clinton might shy away from the word "investigation," it is truly a distinction without a difference. Inquiry is just another word for investigation.

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Here's what we know about the investigation so far.

The FBI is conducting an investigation. (It's the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after all.)

Inspectors General from the State Department and the intelligence community referred the case to the Executive Branch in July 2015. The referral memo made clear that the Inspectors General were not suggesting that anyone involved in Clinton's email setup committed a crime. Rather, they were following their statutory obligation to inform the intelligence community about any potential security breach — namely, that Clinton possibly held classified information on her email server located outside secure government facilities.

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In August, the FBI entered the case.

The FBI is determining if criminal activity occurred in connection with the email setup.

We talked to experts in federal criminal investigations, and they told us that the FBI doesn't look into issues just for the heck of it. They assess cases to find out whether criminal activity occurred.

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Clinton is undoubtedly a subject of the investigation, but whether she meets the definition of an official FBI "target" is unknown. That term is reserved for people for whom there is substantial evidence linking them to a crime, according to the prosecutor's judgment.

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But of course, Clinton's actions are clearly front-and-center in the FBI investigation. Based on her knowledge of how classified information mishandling cases proceed, and her understanding of public reports about Clinton's role in the email setup, Glasser said the FBI is very likely looking at Clinton specifically.

"My experience tells me that Hillary Clinton is a subject of a criminal investigation," Glasser said.

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"You don't know if it's criminal until you get to the end of it," Pollitt said.

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The investigation has been going on for nine months now. To Pollitt, that means it's probably a tough case to pin down.

"If this thing was dead on arrival, nobody would be willing to keep this thing going," he said.


http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/politifact-what-we-know-about-the-fbis-investigation-into-hillary-clintons/2277241

[panader0]

1. It's been going on for nine months because there is so much there.

Crimes have been committed--now, who to blame? Scooter Libby?

[scscholar]

9. Or there is nothing there so they keep digging

If they had something, they would have acted long ago.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Actually 9 months is short for an investigation of this type

I cover courts, this is not law and order.

[99th_Monkey]

17. Not very likely that the FBI "has nothing"

Believe it or not, the FBI has better things to do with their agents, than to needlessly
drag-out investigations. That said, there is wide-spread speculation is question as to
whether Director Comey has some kind of partisan political agenda that is determining
the timing of when new information is made public, via official sources and/or leaks.

[apcalc]

2. Hillary Clinton

Is not the subject of any investigation.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I believe being a subject and a target are two different things, Hillary is definitely a subject as

it was all concerning her private server setup, only time will tell as to whether she becomes or is a target.

[apcalc]

4. http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/there-is-no-fbi-investigation-of-hillary-clinton/22894/

[tonedevil]

7. The article...

is kind of long in the tooth and there are no quotes from the FBI there. I am far from saying I know differently, but your source is useless.

[apcalc]

11. Confirmed by DWS again today.

[tonedevil]

13. She is not FBI...

and when pressed if that was what the FBI told her she said "I’m only repeating what my understanding is". When you learn what proof is get back to us.

[Desert805]

18. LOL

Good one.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Your link and subl-ink are dated as of last December and August

During an FBI investigation targets will be determined depending on the evidence that is accumulated, a person may not start out as a target but become one during the course of an investigation as additional evidence is revealed.

Like I said only time will tell.

[apcalc]

5. Neither a subject nor a target...

[Uncle Joe]

12. Without Hillary's private e-mail server setup outside the bounds of executive oversight there

would be no investigation.

Only time will tell as to whether Hillary becomes a target.

[4139]

6. They missed one: FBI investigating who and how the personal vs work emails were sorted.

That is why Cheryl mills walk out of the FBI meeting. That is part of the handling of classified documents. That is potentially a big pothole

[OhZone]

8. Have you noticed that the Director of the FBI -

is a Republican who goes on Faux News?

Says it all.

[Uncle Joe]

14. I imagine Jeb Bush donors are and have as well.

Hillary forces target Bush donors
Their message to moderate Republicans: She represents your values better than Trump.

NEW YORK -- Hillary Clinton’s supporters in recent days have been making a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump, multiple sources in both parties told POLITICO.

The moves come as Clinton and the Democratic Party try to take advantage of deep unease among establishment Republicans on Wall Street and elsewhere with Trump’s emergence as the presumptive Republican nominee.

Top targets for the Clinton team include people like Woody Johnson, Jeb Bush’s former finance chair and the owner of the New York Jets. In recent days, Bush’s brother and father, former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have said they plan to skip Trump’s nominating convention.

One person close to Clinton said supporters of the former secretary of state drew up a list of Wall Street donors who supported Jeb Bush and other unsuccessful Republican candidates months ago but wanted to wait until Trump locked down the nomination before beginning to make the calls.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hilary-clinton-bush-donors-222872

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Who was appointed by a Democratic President

you might want to look up why. There is this thing called the google; use it.