Thread: Hillary Grand Jury Called, FBI Looking Into Political Corruption

Hillary Grand Jury Called, FBI Looking Into Political Corruption

Richard Pollock
Reporter


10:06 PM 03/09/2016


Department of Justice officials have impaneled a federal grand jury in the Hillary Clinton email case and FBI agents have launched a second,
separate investigation on political corruption involving the former secretary of state’s official activities and the Clinton Foundation, a former
U.S. attorney told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Joseph E. diGenova, who served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for four years, said Wednesday he believes the FBI is investigating two
separate Clinton scandals.

“The Bureau has between 100 and 150 agents assigned to the case. They would not have that many people assigned to a classified information case,”
he told TheDCNF, addressing Clinton’s use of a private email server located at her New York home.

“Based on reports that agents are asking questions about the foundation, it seems to me it is the subject of a second prong of the investigation,” he said.

The Department of State’s inspector general (IG) subpoenaed documents from the Clinton Foundation last fall to determine if State Department policies
had been influenced by foundation activities. The State IG asked for records held by the foundation and Huma Abedin, who for six months simultaneously
worked for former Secretary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.

A number of the 55,000 pages of government-related emails that were released under a court order also show numerous emails between Clinton’s aides
and the Clinton Foundation’s foreign policy director, Amitabh Desai.

The corruption probe is being led by the Justice Department’s public integrity division, a former FBI agent who requested anonymity told The DCNF.

DiGenova said it was clear to him if a federal grand jury had been impaneled after Justice Department officials acknowledged they had issued statutory
immunity to Bryan Pagliano, Clinton’s former IT chief.

“It is inconceivable to me that they could have done that without subpoenaing documents from third parties,” he told The DCNF, “You cannot declare
immunity except in the grand jury context if it was statutory immunity.”

Department of Justice officials granted Pagliano immunity from prosecution in return for full cooperation with the FBI over the operation of the private
server, according to the Washington Post.

“My long experience as the United States Attorney and an independent counsel makes me conclude as a matter of professional judgment that a grand
jury exists,” DiGenova told The DCNF. “It is readily apparent to me that there is at least a grand jury impaneled for the purposes of issuing subpoenas,” he said.

Matthew G. Whitaker, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, agreed, saying “a grand jury impaneled for the purposes of issuing a subpoena
makes a lot of sense.”

The Obama administration has been coy about whether or not a grand jury had been impaneled in the Clinton case. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
side-stepped the issue in a Feb. 29 Fox News interview, saying, “we don’t comment on specifics.”

DiGenova said he expected an FBI recommendation on at least one of its investigations to be sent to the Justice Department within the next 60 days.

A grand jury’s goal is to determine whether or not there is “probable cause” one or more persons have committed a federal offense. It is not an indictment.

A grand jury can issue an indictment or return what is called a “no bill,” meaning there is no legal action.

It is also not clear who is the “target” of the grand jury. In a Monday interview with Fox News, Clinton insisted she was not a target of the Justice Department
or of a grand jury. Clinton, however, could be the “subject” of an investigation, but not a target.

A “target” is when a prosecutor or a grand jury has substantial evidence to link a person to the commission of a crime and who, in the judgment of the
prosecutor, is a defendant. While a “subject” of an investigation is a person whose conduct is within the scope of a grand jury’s investigation but may not have committed a crime.

Whitaker also said Clinton can play dumb if her lawyers have not asked the Department of Justice outright if she is a target.

“The real question is whether her lawyers have asked the feds whether she’s the subject or target of an investigation,” he told The DCNF. “If they have not
asked the question, she would not ‘know’ the answer.”

Mark Zaid, a national security lawyer, also said that empaneling a grand jury does not mean guilt.

“Even if a grand jury is impaneled, it doesn’t mean culpability,” Zaid told The DCNF.

The Justice Department cautions that convening a grand jury in itself is not the equivalent of an indictment.

The Department of Justice did not respond to The DCNF’s request for comment.

Joseph E. DiGenova, who served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for four years, said Wednesday he believes the FBI is investigating two

separate Clinton scandals.

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Obama plotting to stall Hillary prosecution

March 29, 2016

The FBI investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal appears to be wrapping up, and a report this week from the Los Angeles Times claimed Clinton and her closest aides could soon be brought in for questioning.

But if President Obama has his way, the process may not get any further than that — at least not until after the 2016 election.

That’s according to former House Minority leader Tom DeLay, who knows his way well around the Washington political process.

And in an interview yesterday with the “Steve Malzberg Show,” DeLay laid out exactly how the Obama administration will look to stall the Department of Justice to keep Clinton’s presidential campaign from getting derailed.

The plan revolves around delaying Clinton’s case while a special prosecutor is appointed.

According to DeLay, the appointment of a special prosecutor and that prosecutor’s subsequent review of the evidence against Clinton are a stalling technique “that gets this case all the way through the election.”

“That’s what I think is going to happen [for] stalling purposes. That’s how you get it past the election,” DeLay said.

DeLay isn’t the only politician speaking out against Clinton and the progress of the investigation. This week, Sen. Chuck Grassly (R-IA) also weighed in.

“With all the troubles she’s getting on email, and the FBI’s going to question her, I would imagine she’d want to change the tone of her campaign,” Grassley told Politico in an interview published Monday.

The investigation revolves around Clinton’s use of a private “home brew” server while secretary of state. While Clinton claims she did not handle any classified information over the private account, subsequent federal reviews of the emails found that many were too sensitive to be released to the public. Some of those emails were then deemed classified.

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