those police officers , I do . I think she ought to prosecute herself OK ? That 's my reaction .
The KGB may be gone , but Russian foreign intelligence , operating with the initials “ SVR , ” is thriving . Proof : Evgeny Buryakov , the Russian agent who , beginning in 2012 , operated undercover as a banker in New York City gathering intelligence , trading coded messages with other Russian spies who sent clandestinely collected information back to Moscow . He was caught , was indictedjustice.initiatejudicialprocess.naand pleaded guilty in March . There ’s the reported Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the release of 20,000 DNC emails . Jumping to Putin ’s defense , Trump said at NBC News ’ Wednesday night national security forum , “ Well , nobody knows that for a fact . ” Tell that to the intelligence community .
As if all this was n't enough bad news for Mrs. Clinton in one week , the FBI learned last week from the convicted international hacker , who calls himself Guccifer , that he knows how the Russians came to possess Mrs. Clinton 's emails ; and it is because she stored , received and sent them from her personal , secret , non - secure server . Mrs. Clinton has not been confronted publicly and asked for an explanation of her thoughts about the confluence of these events , but she has been asked if the FBI has reached out to her . It may seem counter - intuitive , but in white collar criminal cases , the FBI gives the targets of its investigations an opportunity to come in and explain why the target should not be indictedjustice.initiatejudicialprocess.na. This is treacherous ground for any target , even a smart lawyer like Mrs. Clinton . She does not know what the feds know about her .
That was the news yesterday . COLE : Look , I think there ’s a lot of hyperbole going on here , tongue - in - cheek speaking . I think the central issue here , and I think Democrats know it , is the fact they ’ve got a nominee that 56 percent of the American people think should ’ve been indictedjustice.initiatejudicialprocess.nafor the manner in which she handled the classified information . And then 70 percent of the electorate say they do n’t trust . So I ’m not surprised they ’re trying to come at a Republican as opposed to deal with their own problems .
It ’s the most explosive question of the 2016 presidential campaign : Could Hillary Clinton get indictedjustice.initiatejudicialprocess.nafor her handling of sensitive materials through her home email server ? A POLITICO review of dozens of recent federal investigations for mishandling of classified records suggests that it ’s highly unlikely — but not impossible . Story Continued Below
Only the former owner of this newspaper , Conrad Black , in National Review Online has endorsed his friend The Donald , on the admittedly credible grounds that Trump would discover maturity in office once faced with the responsibility of leading the Free World rather than mouthing off vicious sexist comments about women reporters . While this might be true , the risk is too great to take ; that is why nearly 70 per cent of Republican voters who do n’t support Trump are telling pollsters that they “ possibly ” or “ probably ” wo n’t vote for him as president . Assuming Hillary Clinton is n’t indictedjustice.initiatejudicialprocess.naby the FBI over her outrageous lese majeste with classified emails , and assuming that Bernie Sanders ’ campaign fizzles out after his initial projected victories in New Hampshire and possibly Iowa , and assuming ex - New York Mayor Michael Blomberg does n’t exploit the chaos with a White House run of his own – all fairly big assumptions – Trump will not win a single state unless those 70 per cent of Republicans return to the GOP camp . Trump ’s levity , unprofessionalism and possible cowardice in not taking part in the final debate – because the Fox News moderator is Megyn Kelly , whose menstruation cycle he thought it politic to comment upon – are unlikely to change the minds of this key electoral demographic . Photo : AFP
Friction between the U.S. and Venezuela runs deep . Last March the Obama administration slapped sanctions on several high - ranking members of President Nicolas Maduro 's government . U.S. authorities also arrested and indictedjustice.initiatejudicialprocess.natwo of Maduro 's family members for drug trafficking late last year . Related : Christine Lagarde : Troubled oil countries keep me up at night The political tension may be weighing on economic ties .
The FBI in July said it had completed its yearlong probe into whether the former secretary of State mishandled classified information on her personal server . The investigation was never formally closed from an administrative standpoint . Comey at the time called Clinton " extremely careless " but declined to recommend criminal charges to the Justice Department , outraging Republicans who said she should have been indictedjustice.initiatejudicialprocess.na. The FBI director repeatedly said Clinton 's use of the server did not rise to the level of criminal behavior because investigators were unable to amass any evidence that she had intended to mishandle classified information . The probe did reveal that some information marked classified at the time passed through her servers .