Non-Partisan: FBI Investigating Clinton for “Gross Negligence”

by Joey Clark

Hillary Clinton Still Has Explaining to Do

As Hillary Clinton and her allies continue to insist her e-mail scandal is merely a trumped-up “vast right-wing conspiracy,” the FBI is continuing its investigation into Clinton’s improper handling of classified information as Secretary of State, focusing on whether or not there were violations of the Espionage Act due to “gross negligence.”

The Daily Caller reports:

According to Fox News, an intelligence source says that the probe is focused on sections of the Espionage Act which addresses security clearance holders who, “through gross negligence,” permit national defense information to be separated or abstracted from its secure location. The Act also requires the security holder “to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer.”

The punishment for failure to comply is a fine, imprisonment up to 10 years, or both.

“If someone knows there is an ongoing investigation and takes action to impede an investigation, for example destruction of documents or threatening of witnesses, that could be a separate charge but still remain under a single case,” the intelligence source told Fox.

Clinton has denied sending or receiving classified information from her personal email address. However, the Intelligence Community inspector general has found two emails which traversed Clinton’s server it says included “top secret” information at the time they were sent.

Clinton also faces the prospect that her private server was hacked: another potential violation of the Espionage Act. Maybe instead of lecturing Edward Snowden for not going through “official” channels as a whistleblower, Clinton should look in the mirror first for her own “unofficial” email arrangement.

As “FOIA Terrorist” Jason Leopold told VICE:

“She changes her story time and time and time again. These are things that anyone should care about when it comes to an elected official. My takeaway is that the rules, for some reason, did not apply to Hillary Clinton, as they would have applied to anyone in the federal government.”