The investigation will be
slow, deliberate and torturous for the presidential candidate
The announcement by the State
Department, three days before the Iowa caucuses, that 22 of the messages from
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server contained Top
Secret information has political watchers, and much of the country, wondering
just how bad the scandal will get.
Ultimately, the answer depends
on the slow, deliberate, and largely invisible investigation by the FBI and the
Justice Department of the
potential mishandling of
classified information in the Democratic front-runner’s emails.
The good news for Clinton is
that the bar for any legal damage from that investigation is high. The bad news
is that the probe will likely drag on well past the State Department’s final
release of her e-mails over the coming month, which means the political costs
for Clinton could continue to rise.
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