Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier reported on Wednesday that an indictment is likely in the FBI’s ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation and Clinton emails, according to “two separate sources with intimate knowledge” of the agency’s investigations.
The ostensibly charitable Clinton Foundation – which is presented by the Clintons and aligned left-wingers and Democrats as a philanthropic enterprise – is alleged to operate as a money-laundering vehicle through which the Clintons sold political influence. It is also alleged to operate as an expense account for the Clintons’ lavish lifestyles.
Baier’s sources describe the FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation as “expansive” and “very high priority,” with agents “aggressively pursuing the case.” They also claim to have “a lot of [evidence],” with an “avalanche [of new evidence] coming in every day.”
Hillary Clinton is also alleged to have been criminally negligent in her handling of national security secrets – including the most classified intelligence – while exclusively using an unauthorized private email server for her and her inner circle through which they conducted government business during her tenure as secretary of state.
Baier reported that his sources claimed with high certainty that Clinton’s email server had been compromised by foreign intelligence services.
“Lastly, we learned there is a confidence from these sources that her server had been hacked, said Baier. “And that it was about a 99% accuracy that it had been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and they believe that things had been taken from that.”
Two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson – were offered limited immunity deals in which the Justice Department has tentatively agreed to destroy their laptops, according to Baier’s sources. The same sources told Baier definitively that the laptops were not destroyed and are currently being “exploited.” The sources also informed Baier that any immunity deal is “null and void” is any subject lied at any point in an investigation.
Attorney Cheryl Mills (L) listens as former Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 22, 2015. Clinton took the stand Thursday to defend her role in responding to deadly attacks on the US mission in Libya, as Republicans forged ahead with an inquiry criticized as partisan anti-Clinton propaganda. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
The FBI is simultaneously investigating Anthony Weiner’s laptop, upon which emails previously undiscovered during its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. The emails found on Weiner’s laptop are said to be “new” and not duplicated, and are believed to have come from Hillary Clinton’s private server.
Watch the two segments with Baier below.
Below is a partial transcript of the first segment.
“Breaking news tonight — two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations into the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation tell Fox the following:
The investigation into the Clinton Foundation looking into possible pay-for-play interaction between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Foundation has been going on for more than a year. Led by the white collar crime division, public corruption branch of the criminal investigative division of the FBI.
The Clinton Foundation investigation is a, quote, ‘very high priority.’ Agents have interviewed and reinterviewed multiple people about the Foundation case, and even before the WikiLeaks dumps, these sources said agents had collected a great deal of evidence. Pressed on that, one source said, quote, ‘a lot of it,’ and ‘there is an avalanche of new information coming in every day.’
Some of it from WikiLeaks, some from new emails. The agents are actively and aggressively pursuing this case, and they will be going back and interviewing the same people again, some for the third time.
As a result of the limited immunity deals to a number of top aides, including Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, the Justice Department had tentatively agreed that the FBI would destroy those laptops after a narrow review. We are told definitively that has not happened. Those devices are currently in the FBI field office here in Washington, D.C. and are being exploited.
The source points out any immunity deal is null and void if any subject lied at any point in the investigation.
Meantime, the classified email investigation is being run by the National Security division of the FBI. They are currently combing through former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner’s laptop and have found emails that they believe came from Hillary Clinton’s server that also appear to be new, as in not duplicates.
Whether they contain classified material or not is not yet known, but will likely be known soon. All of this just as we move inside one week until election day, in what has become a presidential election unlike any other.
New state polls out tonight show movement. Donald Trump has flipped Nevada from Clinton’s column to his own. He’s expanding his lead in Ohio, Arizona, Georgia, and Missouri. He is narrowing the gap in Virginia and Pennsylvania.”
Below is a partial transcript of the second segment (emphasis added).
BRET BAIER: Here’s the deal: We talked to two separate sources with intimate knowledge of what’s going on with these FBI investigations. A couple of things. One: The Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported, I think, so far…
BRIT HUME: Yeah, because remember Comey last July basically wouldn’t comment on it, and we kinda believed for a long time that there wasn’t much of Clinton investigation.
BRET BAIER: Right, and that was basically about Washington ‘s influence in that. Several offices, separately, were doing their own investigations. That’s one. Two: Remember the immunity deal that supposedly Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson – two top aides for Hillary Clinton – got from the Justice Department in which it as believed that the laptops that they had, after a narrow review for classification emails, were going to be destroyed by the FBI. We have been told that those definitively have not been destroyed. They are at the FBI field office here in Washington and are being exploited.
Three: The Clinton Foundation investigation is so expansive, they have interviewed and reinterviewed many people. They describe the evidence they have as, quote, ‘a lot of it’ and there is an ‘avalanche coming every day’ with WikiLeaks and the new emails.
They are “actively and aggressively pursuing this case.” Remember the Foundation case is about the pay-for-play, the allegations of Secretary Clinton…
BRIT HUME: Right. People made contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and because of that they were able to extract tension, at least, if not more, from the State Department. Do I have that right?
BRET BAIER: Exactly. So they are taking the new information and some of them are going back to interview people for the third time. As opposed to what has been written about the Clinton Foundation investigation, it is expansive.
The classified investigation is being run by the National Security division of the FBI. They are currently, as Catherine Herridge has reported, combing through Anthony Weiner’s laptop. They are having some success. In other words, finding what they believe to be new emails, not duplicates, that have been transported, if you will, emailed through Hillary Clinton’s server.
Lastly, we learned that there is a confidence from these sources that her server had been hacked. And that it was about a 99% accuracy that it had been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and they believe that things had been taken from that.
BRIT HUME: Sounds to me, Bret, as if what we have here is a much bigger investigation than we thought. What about the role of the Department of Justice in terms of, we know that the Department of Justice resisted some things the FBI wanted to do in the investigation. What about the department’s role in this aspect of the investigation, involving the foundation?
BRET BAIER: This source and two sources say it has not been easy. It has not been a smooth process. They believe that they are moving forward effectively now, but there has been some angst about Attorney General Loretta Lynch and what she has done or not done. She obviously did not impanel or go to a grand jury at the beginning. They also have a problem, these sources do, with what President Obama said today and back in October of 2015.
BRIT HUME: We’re gonna get to that late on, and if he downplayed it today, he said something that suggested he’s changed his tune a bit about Director Comey. This does not sound like something that’s gonna be completed anytime soon which suggests that if Hillary Clinton is elected, she will take office with not one, but two serious investigations of her past conduct hanging over her.
BRET BAIER: Definitely. I pressed again and again on this very issue, and these sources said… the investigations will continue, there is a lot of evidence. And barring some obstruction in some way, they believe they will continue to likely an indictment.
H/T Tim Hains at RealClearPolitics
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