"There was wrongdoing," the newspaper quoted a former senior law
enforcement official. "But was it criminal wrongdoing?"
Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Congress earlier this year
that the case is being handled by "career independent law
enforcement agents, FBI agents, as well as the career
independent attorneys in the Department of Justice" who will
follow the evidence, look at the law and "make a recommendation
to me when the time is appropriate."
The FBI is likely trying to establish whether Clinton and her
aides understood the protocols of sending and receiving
classified information, former officials told The Post.
Clinton has said she did not send or receive information "marked
classified" at the time, though hundreds of the emails released
through a Freedom of Information Act request are now deemed
various degrees of classified and include redactions – in some
cases the entire email.
Fox News' Catherine Herridge reported on
Monday that one of the emails in the final batch released was
withheld on request of law enforcement, and that she had
received a tip months ago that at least one of them contained
information that the senders understood the information was
classified at the time.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday called the grant of immunity
"an ominous development" for the Clinton campaign.
"This suggests the investigation is moving to a whole other
level, and granting immunity means they'll question this
individual and get all the facts of what he did and in
particular, what secretary Clinton told him, what her close
associates told him, what they knew and instructed, and that
suggests that the legal jeopardy is just getting greater and
greater," Cruz said on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File."