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In reply to the discussion: Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)But there's nothing illegal about having the private server, or setting up one.
What's illegal is that classified information ended up on that server.
The primary burden for the classified information being sent and stored on a non-secure system rests with two parties:
1) The person who originated the info,
2) Whoever knew that the info was classified but did not take steps to properly secure it.
In one of the published emails, it has been reported tht HRC personally tells someone to remove a classified header from a document and send it unsecured. That may have caused this grant of immunity.
Note that although it was said that was her personal email address, I don't know that it was. But whoever sent the email seems to have instructed Jake Sullivan to commit a federal crime.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-2016/
A State Department official declined to comment on Grassley's statement, but told CNN earlier in the day that the department has "no indication at this time that the document being discussed was emailed to her."