(Editor’s note: Because of the fast-moving news cycle on the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation and related scandals, WND is tracking all significant developments in one place for those who don’t have time to scour all the headlines.)
WASHINGTON – The Hillary Clinton campaign may be on the verge of an epic meltdown, and if the latest reports are true, she could even end up in prison instead of the White House.
The bombshell revelations are arriving almost hourly, with nearly two dozen in just the last day. But the single most explosive development came from Fox News, which reported that an indictment of Clinton is likely.
Here is the latest.
Indictment
Two sources “with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations into the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation” told Fox News’ Bret Baier an indictment is “likely” in the Clinton Foundation influence peddling scandal.
The only impediment would be “some obstruction in some way” from the Justice Department.
The big question for the Clinton campaign, and the country, would then be whether any indictment comes down before the election on Nov. 8.
Bret Baier: FBI sources believe Clinton Foundation case moving toward indictment
Server hacked
Another bombshell from those sources was a “99 percent” probability the private email server Clinton used for official business as secretary of state was hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies.
The sources also reported that those foreign agencies did obtain information from Clinton’s server.
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Breaking developments
FBI agents reportedly found emails they believe came from Clinton’s server on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of her top aide, Huma Abedin.
Significantly, they say the emails are not duplicates, meaning they are emails investigators have not seen before.
Equally significant, the sources say some emails may contain classified information.
Agents are also said to be poring over previous statements made to the FBI by Clinton and her aides to see if there is any conflict with the massive amount of new information investigators are collecting.
Multiple news outlets have reported there are now at least five federal investigations into the Clintons and their close friends and associates.
Clinton Foundation investigation
In addition to reporting the likelihood of an indictment in the inquiry, Fox’s sources said investigators are “actively and aggressively” looking into the Clinton Foundation.
They said the investigation is “far more expansive than anybody has reported so far,” it has been underway for more than a year and is a “very high priority.”
Contrary to previous reports, the sources said the laptops of former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills, and other top aide Heather Samuelson, definitely have not been destroyed. As part of an immunity agreement, the FBI had agreed to destroy those laptops after its first, but more narrowly focused, review.
A source noted those immunity deals would have been revoked if the recipients were found to have lied during the investigation.
Agents are reportedly scouring the laptops for evidence of pay-for-play, or influence peddling, by the former secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation.
The investigation is so expansive that agents have re-interviewed numerous people about case and interviewed other key figures for the first time.
Agents reported they gathered “a lot” of evidence even before the WikiLeaks disclosure and “there is an avalanche of new information coming every day.” Some of the fresh information is coming from WikiLeaks, some from new emails.
The Foundation investigation is reportedly being done by the white collar crime and public corruption branch of the FBI’s criminal investigative division.
Bret Baier gives more details about FBI investigation into Clinton Foundation
Email investigation
The investigation into classified emails on Clinton’s server and her aides’ devices is reportedly being run by the FBI’s National Security division.
They believe they have found previously undiscovered emails from Clinton’s server on Wiener’s laptop.
Those agents are looking for classified information in those emails. They believe they will soon know whether there is any.
Treason
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee accused Hillary Clinton of treason on Thursday.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said that was because Clinton had exposed sensitive information to foreign government hackers.
“She exposed it to our enemies, and now … our adversaries have this very sensitive information that not only jeopardizes her and national security at home, but the men and women serving overseas,” he charged.
“In my opinion, quite frankly, it’s treason,” said McCaul.
He continued, “The concern I’ve had all along is she has had seven special access programs on these devices. Those are the most classified, sensitive secrets in the federal government — many of them covert operations.”
“She took those devices overseas against the State Department’s wishes, and now we find out — and (FBI Director) James Comey told me previously — that it’s very likely that foreign adversary nations got into her private server,” McCaul concluded.
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Justice Department cover-up
Top Justice Department officials ordered FBI investigators looking into the Clinton Foundation to “stand down” back in February, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The Foundation investigation was kept alive, according to Fox, by agents who obtained information from two informants and made a secret audio recording in a different probe into public corruption.
The agents were pursuing leads based on claims made in the book “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer.
The FBI reportedly believed it had enough evidence to prosecute Clinton but Justice Department officials disagreed.
A senior Justice Department official phoned FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to complain FBI agents were disobeying the stand down order.
“Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?” McCabe reportedly asked.
After a pause, the senior DOJ official was said to have replied, “Of course not.”
Email leaks not from Russia
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the Russian government is not the source of the thousands of emails his website has published from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
In an interview with Russia Today to be aired Saturday, Assange said the “Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything.”
Clinton and other top Democrats have repeatedly and loudly insisted the leaks were done by Russia to affect the presidential election. However, Clinton and other Democrats have not disputed the contents of the emails.
“Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia is the source of our publications,” said Assange. “That’s false; we can say that the Russian government is not our source.”
“I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person,” he added, “because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick – for example, faint – as a result of going on, and going with their ambitions.”
“But she represents a whole network of people, and a whole network of relationships with particular states,” Assange concluded.
Podesta warned Clinton
Lifezette uncovered a Wikileaks email on Thursday in which Podesta implicitly warned Clinton of the dangers of using her unsecured email system to discuss sensitive information.
In the 2014 emails, exchanged after she had resigned as secretary of state, Clinton asked Podesta if he had “any idea whose fighters attacked Islamist positions in Tripoli, Libya,” because it was “worth analyzing for future purposes.”
Realizing it was not an exchange that should be held on her unsecured email system, Podesta warned, “Yes and interesting but not for this channel.”
Another Wikileaks email dug up by Lifezette suggests Podesta himself was warned as far back as 2008 about the dangers of discussing sensitive information outside of official government channels.
President Obama’s first chief of staff, Denis McDonough, wrote to fellow transition team member Daniel Tarullo on Nov. 3, 2008, “I was struck by the memo partly because it was first I had heard of it but much more because it was a sensitive doc bumping around on public email addresses.”
“There is a very real threat to the security of our documents,” he added.
Tarullo added Podesta, who was also a member of Obama’s transition team, to the email chain.
McDonough then warned Podesta directly, “I know I’m like a broken record on this, but I think we should arrange a briefing on the cyber threat for all associated with your effort. We have a real security threat on our stuff here.”
