"things have now risen to the level of a grand jury investigation"
Immunity Deal Raises Stakes in Clinton Investigationsnip
Still, the immunity deal adds to the appearance of possible misconduct in Clinton’s email practices — and creates more uncertainty for her campaign.
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Legal experts say the kind of deal the Department of Justice (DOJ) has struck with Pagliano is common in cases where investigators want to work their way up the food chain in uncovering possible criminal activity.
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“If prosecutors confer immunity in a case, in general it means that they at least have some intention of pursuing the matter to a grand jury. Whether they ultimately decide to pull the trigger and press charges is a whole other question,” said Bob Ray, a former federal prosecutor who was head of the Office of the Independent Counsel during the Whitewater investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and current co-chair of Fox Rothschild LLP’s white collar compliance & defense practice.
What the immunity deal does suggest, experts say, is twofold.
First, that investigators believe Pagliano has potentially valuable information that will help them determine whether any laws were broken.
Second, that the Department of Justice is at minimum setting the stage for the possibility of a criminal case.
“It doesn’t necessarily signal that there will be charges. What it does signal is that they are accelerating past the investigation stage and things have now risen to the level of a grand jury investigation,” Ray said.
Legal experts note that the Department of Justice (DOJ) — under whose authority the FBI operates — doesn’t have the power to grant immunity. Federal judges are the only ones with that power, and only at the request of a DOJ prosecutor.
But for a DOJ prosecutor to make such a request is “a pretty significant step,” Ray argued, one that prosecutors don’t typically take unless they believe the testimony is worth letting go of a smaller fish.
“Prosecutors are in the business of making cases — you don’t hand out immunity unless the hope is it gets you additional evidence that you would not be able to get, and that [the] evidence leads towards being able to perfect a charge,” he said.
Security experts say Pagliano could know a great deal.
“I think of him as Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano; he knows where the bodies are buried and he could bring down the whole organization,” said Morgan Wright, a cybersecurity consultant who has worked with tech companies like Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent, referencing the underling who helped bring down mob boss John Gotti.
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Perhaps more importantly, Pagliano might have been part of conversations regarding what Clinton’s camp said the server would be used for, and how the team wanted to manage confidential information that could pass through the device.
“Was he told, ‘Oh this server is going to have confidential, or top secret, or secret State Department communications on it?’” Toren said.
All of the conversations with Clinton’s staff at State could give investigators more targets and leads.
“This guy’s low-hanging fruit,” Wright said. “But he’s going to lead them to bigger things.”
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/271718-immunity-deal-raises-stakes-in-clinton-email-investigation
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How about that? Learn something every day. 
Go cult figure! We love you! 
Thanks for a good chuckle too, merrily. 
I certainly don't agree with that thinking, but understand how some misguided political-minded people do.
All the more reason to nominate an authentic progressive like Bernie!
Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
"the emails on her server were not marked classified at the time they were sent or received....Only later where they deemed classified"
by the State Dept (after consultation with other departments).
On some emails the information and data appears to have been sourced outside of State Dept. Some of the info on that server was classified "from birth," so either somebody somewhere either failed to properly mark it or removed the headings. There is nothing that says that info wasn't copied from other sources, with their headings left out. From what I've read, that's part of what the FBI has been trying to sort out.
Also, the one thing seems forgotten by all that also would be material info is who instructed Pagliano to erase the server, and when did they give him those instructions?
Because iirc, Hillary stonewalled the FBI re: turning over her server for a few months before finally handing over an erased server. Did Pagliano erase it prior to the FBI's request? Or after? Only one of these scenarios would not qualify as obstruction of justice.
She gave her staffer the order to remove the header of documents that should have been sent via a secure fax machine, and to email the confidential documents instead. Read the email exchange between Hillary and Jake Sullivan from the bottom up.
I have been following this closely and part of the problem is that stories mention anywhere from 1 to 3 servers.
IMHO media has been sloppy as hell. 
But they do have the servers.
Don't you know that's the only source of reliable information in the Internet Age?
can come true if you're willing to wait for them. I don't want to wait much longer though. If they're gonna take her down, sooner would be so much better than later.
on this heinously unfounded investigation "right fscking now." 
https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+waldman+wikipedia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
"Chelsea Victoria Clinton today has announced on Sunday that she would seek the presidency for a second time, immediately establishing herself as the likely 2024 Democratic nominee."
Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
