2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: FBI Question [View all]FourScore
(9,704 posts)The Clinton campaign loves to combine these, and they of course are connected, but the issue is the open server. In the past, Powell and other state dept employees have used private email, that is true. The difference is that Clinton used a private server to conduct State Dept work. That's how Guccifer hacked it.
Apparently, Hillary asked her staff to de-classify emails so that she could receive them on her blackberry. That is a federal crime and shows intent. Do we know if this is true or not? Why grant immunity to someone if it is not true?
Many of the emails she claimed were private were deleted. The FBI wanted to see them first but could not retrieve them. Apparently, they found them on the cloud. I believe this had to do with the small company in Colorado that she hired to back up her server, but I'm not certain. We shall see if they were really all personal. We don't know that yet.
What about the pay-to-play charges that have been widely written about in numerous media outlets, even prior to the FBI investigation?