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Well, it is not a conspiracy it is just sort of like what "Deep Throat" says in All the President's Men..."these guys just aren't very bright."

I would add in this case horribly arrogant as well.

It will be the FBI and Justice Department that make this decision. They have taken their time, I would say, because a crime has been committed and the person that committed the crime is a high profile individual. They won't indict until they are sure of what they have. And you can bet there are all sorts of back door dealings taking place. She is not going to go to jail. They won't lock up a former president, vice president, or first lady. They should however indict her to destroy her eligibility to hold public office.

They also have her on this:

18 U.S. Code § 1924

(a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(c) In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.

Here is Charles Cooke with a clear explanation:

1) The illegal storage of classified information. The rules that govern the storage of classified information — laid out for all to see in 18 USC 1924 — hold that “whoever . . . becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.” By deliberately setting up a home-brewed server in her house that contained classified e-mails — and by copying at least some of those e-mails onto thumb drives and giving them to her lawyers — Hillary Clinton violated this rule. The statute confirms that one cannot become “possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States . . . with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location.” Surely, Clinton did.

2) The illegal transmission of classified information. Under 18 USC 793(f)(1)-(2), it is a felony to transmit classified information on the subject of national defense through unapproved channels.

By transmitting the server’s contents to a third-party (Platte River), she may well have committed a felony. As of now, Clinton’s best defense is that she only passively received classified e-mails — But if she handed over a server full of classified information and then actively copied that information onto computers owned by a commercial provider — a clear violation of both the “communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated” and “fails to deliver” clauses in USC 18 793(e) — that defense becomes horribly moot.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422513/why-hillarys- wiping-her-e-mail-server-clean-matters-more-it-might-seem-charles-c-w? target=author&tid=23105

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