# Is Hillary Clinton being criminally investigated?

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**Created:** [June 10, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hillary-clinton-being-criminally-investigated/756984 "2016-06-10T00:44:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hillary-clinton-being-criminally-investigated/756984/17 "2016-06-10T21:51:23Z")

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> [@UberArchetype](#):
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> That was determined a long time ago when classified information turned up on her server. Those 2 things are mutually “inclusive:” Classified Breach + Unclassified Server = crime. It is simply, IAW 18 U.S. Code § 798, ILLEGAL for this to happen in any way, shape or form:
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> [The Law](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798)
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> Exactly who did what, when and how needs to be “determined” before indictments can be made.

From your link:

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> Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—

Her server isn’t an unauthorized person. So it sounds like there’s no proof of the law being broken unless it can be shown that the information on her server was accessible by unauthorized people?

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