McClatchy News: As Benghazi inquiry fades, Clinton still faces legal questions about emails
* FBI examines handling of sensitive information during former secretary’s term
* At least 671 emails she sent or received now contain classified information
* State Department releases latest batch of Democratic presidential hopeful’s emails
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton appears to have overcome an investigation of her role in the 2012 deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, but she still faces a months-long FBI inquiry into the handling of sensitive information while she was secretary of state.
The FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, which opened its review this summer after classified information was found in emails transmitted over Clinton’s private email server, is under pressure to act quickly, as Clinton is in the midst of running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.
Attorneys who have handled classified information cases say the bureau, initially asked to examine whether Clinton’s arrangement compromised national security secrets, ultimately will have to consider whether she and her aides failed to sufficiently safeguard sensitive information.
WNU Editor: I thought no one was above the law .... but apparently .... there are exceptions. Destruction of evidence, sharing classified information, hindering an investigation .... people who have done far less have been charged and convicted .... but apparently not in this case.
3 comments:
The old boy school has a girl in it.
If you live inside the D.C. beltway this story and outcome are no surprise. The Obama Administration has been very hard on whistle blowers and mostly hands off on powerful people who violate security procedures. The powerful "serious people" see rules, regulations, and laws as "guidelines"and enforceable against the "little people." Helps to keep the troops in line.
It's been that way since Nixon.
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