When I first started writing here about the Clinton FBI case, I said an indictment wasn’t necessarily likely, but it wasn’t outside the realm of possibility either.
In the last week though the situation has changed, because the FBI may have begun the process of preparing the public for the possibility of an indictment. Does this mean the FBI will necessarily recommend indictment? Still no. But let’s look at how the last week as unfolded:
1) 7 days ago, the Romanian hacker Guccifer said in a Fox News interview that he breached the Clinton server. At the time he offered no proof, so in my previous diary I said this was merely something to keep an eye on.
Sure enough in the last couple days, the situation has changed. It was pointed out on Reddit that people in custody aren’t allowed to give interviews with the media unless granted permission first by the feds. As the was an official interview, it’s clear that the feds granted permission. Why would the feds allow Fox to ask Guccifer whether or not he hacked the Clinton server? The speculation there was that they were preparing the public for an indictment. And subsequent events of the last week are beginning to lend credence to this narrative.
This is especially true since it’s now come out that Guccifer previously published doodles that were hacked from one of the Clinton servers, and it appears that all of the Clinton properties were hosted on the same server. This suggests that Clinton’s email was in fact hacked by Guccifer as he claims.
2) The state department responds to an FOIA request saying that they don’t have any emails for IT administrator Brian Pagliano. State previously said that they were going to defer to the feds with respect to this investigation, so it’s likely that again that this disclosure was cleared first with the FBI. While these missing emails don’t necessarily implicate Hillary in any wrongdoing, the disclosure does completely demolish the talking point of Clinton supporters that Pagliano was only granted immunity because of a few hundred dollars in unpaid taxes.
3) Comey says that the FBI doesn’t do security reviews, only investigations. Again, this doesn’t directly implicate Hillary in any wrongdoing, but it’s clear that he was purposely demolishing a Clinton talking point.
Again the FBI has been careful not to leak any actual details of the investigation so far, but it’s clear that in the past week they’ve been debunking some of the Clinton campaign’s talking points around the investigation at the rate of one every day or two. The Reddit community believes that this means that the FBI is preparing the public for a possible indictment. It’s hard to say whether or not this is accurate, but these three separate incidents in the span of seven days certainly fit with that narrative.