I’m not holding my breath…
Joe DiGenova, a one-time federal prosecutor originally appointed by President Reagan, says he believes Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could be facing imminent indictment over her email scandal, possibly roiling the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary in February. The Daily Mail reports that he said this on the Laura Ingraham on Tuesday. He said that the FBI’s still-pending investigation of Clinton’s email server seems to have reached ‘a critical mass.’
Joe DiGenova
The FBI has been probing whether any classified intelligence was compromised through Clinton’s unusual email setup, but she has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing and has yet to be charged with any crime. DiGenova said that may be about to change.‘They have reached a critical mass in their investigation of the secretary and all of her senior staff,” DiGenova said Ingraham’s show. ‘And, it’s going to come to a head, I would suggest, in the next 60 days.’
FBI Director James Comey
FBI Director James Comey has resisted efforts to lay out a timeline for his agency’s probe of the Clinton case. DiGenova says if it is as imminent as he believes, it could devastate Clinton’s campaign. The Iowa caucuses are on Feb. 1 and the New Hampshire primary is on Feb. 9.‘It’s going to be a very complex matter for the Department of Justice, but they’re not going to be able to walk away from it,’ DiGenova said. ‘They are now at over 1,200 classified emails. And, that’s just for the ones we know about from the State Department. That does not include the ones that the FBI is, in fact, recovering from her hard drives.’
One telling event would be a personal interview between Clinton and the FBI. Although the former secretary of state famously testified at an 11-hour congressional hearing in October, she has not yet been interviewed by federal agents. DiGenova said such an interview would likely precede any public release of the agency’s conclusions in the case.
Any decision about prosecution will fall under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department – headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch. ‘I believe that the evidence that the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that, unless [Lynch] agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an attorney general. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable,’ he said.
‘The evidence against the Clinton staff and the secretary is so overwhelming at this point that if, in fact, she chooses not to charge Hillary, they will never be able to charge another federal employee with the negligent handling of classified information,’ DiGenova continued.
‘The intelligence community will not stand for that. They will fight for indictment and they are already in the process of gearing themselves to basically revolt if she refuses to bring charges.’
This last statement could be true. As Eowyn reported in October last year, the FBI was angry at Obama’s sabotage of Hillary Clinton email investigation.
“Investigators have not reached any conclusions about whether the information on the server had been compromised or whether to recommend charges, according to the law enforcement officials. But to investigators, it sounded as if Mr. Obama had already decided the answers to their questions and cleared anyone involved of wrongdoing.
According to a veteran FBI agent has had a 20-year career in federal law enforcement and serves in a supervisory capacity in a domestic FBI field office, Hillary could be prosecuted in federal court for failing to tell her superior, Obama, about her private email server at the time she was running it.”
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