Set-up for her to get an administrative slap on the wrist for “policy violations”. This is going away.
This is separate from the FBI investigation(s). This is internal to the State Department under the Federal Records Act.
The FBI investigations are for mishandling of classified information and (if leaks are to be believed) potential corruption in the form of “pay to play” via the Clinton Foundation.
This is NOT part of the FBI investigation so I don’t think we can draw any conclusions about the FBI investigation based on the internal State Department compliance review regarding the handling of records.
Based on what we know, the pin has been pulled on this and it will explode at some point. The FBI cannot force the DOJ to bring charges, but their job is to recommend charges and make the best case possible. A large portion of the FBI exists to protect classified information and despite “political guesses” I still believe they will fulfill their role. If they didn’t, it would undermine their own authority and damage their reputation. Contrary to the suggestions of many here and elsewhere, the FBI (as an organization) is apolitical.
This issue will not go away for the Clinton’s as long as Trump has a microphone. Romney or McCain would have hardly said a word about it..... break out the popcorn.
There is much merit to this. I might not call the motivations of the FBI "apolitical," but I do believe the motives of the FBI, as with any federal bureaucracy, are independent of any political motivations of a particular party or candidate. The permanent Federal Bureaucracy is a very real but unelected and politically unaccountable 4th branch of government. They will act entirely in what they believe to be their own self interest. At the permanent levels of each agency, below the upper strata of political appointees, these long tenured bureaucrats are the ones who really make and implement policy. And they are secure in the knowledge that Congress won't do anything to interfere in any meaningful way. The Presidents appointees come and go. If you're a bureaucrat, you can blow them off for a few years and they go away. You're still there.
My case example is the IRS actions regarding the 501 status of TEA Party organizations. To be sure, the IRS footdragging on their applications served the interests of the 0bama regime. However, to the average career IRS bureaucrat, "TEA" also meant "RIF." So the IRS was only too happy and zealous in following the regime's desires to keep those organizations from being certified as tax-exempt. But tegardless of what the regime wanted, the IRS was going to stonewall those applications because it served the interests of the agency and its employees.
So now the bureaucratic self-interest shoe is on the other foot. We have a whole slew of intelligence agencies, the permanent staff of which for the most part take their duties seriously. They cannot be happy about the security compromises represented by Clinton. In fact, her compromises go to more than what was on the line for the IRS agents with TEA Party organizations. Those guys were only looking at losing their jobs. NSA, CIA and DIA agents are looking at losing their lives. We all know of at least four deaths she's already responsible for. The enforcement arm for these agencies has always been the FBI, who I believe also take their jobs seriously.
The professional bureaucrats stick together for each other. The operatives of all of these agencies will do what they can, bureaucratically speaking, to torpedo Cankles and keep her out of the White House.