The FBI is seeking an indictment of Hillary Clinton in the ever-growing email scandal that has dogged her Democratic presidential bid, according to a former US House majority leader.
“I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they’re ready to indict [her],” former Texas Republican Congressman Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV.
DeLay then clarified his statement, saying that if the Justice Department does not hand down an indictment, the FBI will revolt.
“They’re ready to recommend an indictment and they also say that if the attorney general does not indict, they’re going public,” DeLay warned.
Delay, now a Washington Times radio host, went on to say that Hillary will be punished “one way or another.”
“One way or another, either she’s going to be indicted and that process begins, or we try her in the public eye with her campaign.”
But another source familiar with the matter said there’s been a lot of chatter about an indictment, with no movement toward one.
“We have not seen subpoenas go out to Hillary’s staff, or Hillary’s staff — including Huma Abedin — hire high-powered attorneys, signaling that an action has been taken,” the source said.
The FBI and Justice Department have been probing Clinton’s use of a private server to handle classified government information while she was President Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
As a government employee, Clinton was required to use her State Department email address to conduct official business.
Over the past year or so, investigators have flagged dozens of Clinton’s emails marked as confidential or classified — and recently it was reported that her private server contained intelligence from the government’s most highly classified programs.