Hillary Clinton could be potentially prosecuted at a federal court for failing to tell President Barack Obama about her private email server at the time she was running, reports a veteran FBI agent.
The FBI agent has had a 20-year career in federal law enforcement and serves in a supervisory capacity in a domestic FBI office.
He then went on to say on Friday that failing to put Obama in the loop could be enough to send her to prison for ten years.
Separately, the law’s text makes a criminal of any security clearance holder who fails to notify his or her ‘superior officer’ when a breach of security occurs through such negligence.
‘If investigators conclude that the former secretary [Clinton] was criminally careless in how she approached the security of the sensitive documents in her possession, then this part of the law could be used to prosecute her,’ the agent said, on condition of anonymity.
‘”Gross negligence” just means “serious carelessness”,’ he clarified.
Using an unsecured computer network to host sensitive information could qualify.
‘The only way setting up your own email server for messages about sensitive information isn’t negligent is if it’s deliberate – which is far worse,’ he said.
