With
the current 2016 election season heating up, there has been lengthy scrutiny by
the media regarding presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails. More specifically, the question of Confidential
and Top Secret information being routed through her private server. The recent
turn of events finds the media reporting that Bryan Pagliano, the individual
who set up Mrs. Clinton’s private e-mail server, has been granted immunity by
the Justice Department lawyers investigating this matter. The first thing to
look at is whether the information has come from official sources or from
‘leaked’ sources. If it’s from the
latter, than you can’t tell whether it is true or not.
What
I do know from experience is that an individual and their attorney only
approach law enforcement and prosecutors to discuss immunity for two
reasons. The first is that they feel
they are or may be criminally exposed to prosecution. The key words there are ‘criminally’ and
‘prosecution.’ The second is that they
have information and/or evidence on other individuals involved, oftentimes at a
higher paygrade than themselves, that they feel would enhance the investigation
enough that the prosecutor would offer them some type of immunity in exchange
for it.
Whether
this is true or not in this case, only time will tell.
