Poll: Should Hillary Clinton be indicted?

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Should Hillary Clinton be indicted over her email issues? Here the NewBostonPost gives you the chance to become a member of the jury.

 

Do you think Hillary Clinton should be indicted over the handling of her email server?

Yes

No

But first, if you need a refresher, here’s a summary of the evidence reported so far:

There were “about 1,340” emails containing classified information found on Clinton’s private server.

At least one email dealt with human intelligence, or spies engaged in ongoing operations, and was classified above Top Secret. At least two were Top Secret, while some others were even more sensitive, according to published reports.

“The odds are pretty high” that hackers penetrated Clinton’s server, according to former Defense Secretary and CIA chief Robert Gates, noting that Pentagon networks fend off about 100,000 hacker attacks every day. The server was located in Clinton’s suburban New York home rather than in a secured government building until 2013, when it was moved to a New Jersey data center under a Colorado-based service company called Platte River Networks.

Reports have confirmed that Clinton’s server was attacked repeatedly from China, South Korea and Germany, as well as Russia. Others have found evidence that some classified information was forward to the Clinton Foundation. At least one message with a long-time aide, Sidney Blumenthal, contained the name of a CIA source.

The State Department said on Dec. 31 that 1,274 emails were retroactively classified, following a review in response to Freedom of Information requests. Most were categorized as Confidential but two were designated as Secret.

Before handing her server over to government investigators, Clinton had about 30,000 emails deleted, asserting that they were personal and not related to her work at the State Department. But the FBI reportedly recovered the emails and has found some that were work-related.

Clinton has steadfastly insisted she did nothing wrong in using the private email system, although she has apologized for doing so and called it a mistake. She has branded congressional investigations into her email practices as “partisan games.”

The former secretary of state has also said that the material in the emails handled through her server wasn’t marked as classified at the time. Knowingly mishandling classified information could lead to criminal charges.

In one message, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Jan. 21 in the Wall Street Journal, she directed a staff member to erase the heading of a classified document and send it through a device that had not been secured.

In September, Brian Pagliano, a former State Department employee who helped set up the Clinton server, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid testifying before a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives investigating the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, which widened its probe to include Clinton’s email practices.