Hillary Clinton’s email fiasco worse than originally suspected

DeLay said in an appearance on NewsmaxTV that his friends in the Federal Bureau of Investigation relayed to him the information.

“One way or another either she’s going to be indicted and that process begins, or we try her in the public eye with her campaign”, DeLat said. He says Clinton’s actions in the e-mail scandal clearly satisfy all five requirements necessary to sustain charges of mishandling classified material, and constitute a breach perhaps even more glaring than the one for which General David Petraeus was convicted. Her campaign even accused the inspector general – an Obama appointee confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate – of engaging in a “coordinated leak” with Republicans “for the purposes of hurting her campaign”. He was convicted, but the conviction was later overturned.

According to the newspaper, Hillary “is not a ideal candidate, as evidenced the way she has handled the furor over her private email server”. Now, in a National Public Radio interview last week, Clinton said there was no information that was “marked classified”.

JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, has faced criticism for her email use during her time as Secretary of State.

“This is not merely a difference of opinion between the State Department and the Department of Justice”, one intelligence source, who is not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox News, referring to comments on the Sunday talk shows and by the Clinton campaign downplaying the FBI’s investigation.

In another exchange, Clinton appeared to instruct Sullivan to convert a classified document into an unclassified email by scanning and sending it to her after removing the classified markings. More than 1,300 of Clinton’s emails have been found to contain information that was retroactively classified, including some classified at levels higher than “top secret”, and experts say that foreign governments and hackers were likely able to steal the information from Clinton’s server.

The State Department has been releasing the emails from Clinton’s server on a monthly basis.

That could change as the State Department prepares to release the last of Clinton’s emails – those whose review took the most time because they required analysis by multiple government agencies, including in the intelligence community, before they could be made public.

An extension would push the complete publication of Clinton’s emails past several of the earliest primary contests, including the key states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

What the FBI’s move here means is that they will get a definitive answer to the question of whether the information was classified, and they won’t have to depend on people in Hillary’s inner-circle to get it. If they come out instead on February 29, it would be a day before the critical Super Tuesday primaries.