| | | yes it was under the espionage act The part of the Espionage Act cited by each FBI source is Section 793(f), which deals with the handling of sensitive national defense information. It reads as follows.
“Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer — Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
The above quote was obtained from Cornell University Law School, where the full text of 18 U.S. Code 793 is also available.
According to the intelligence source that spoke to Fox News, use of an unsecured computer network, or a poorly-secured private email server, could constitute “gross negligence” under Subsection F of the Espionage Act.
The anonymous FBI agent who spoke to the Daily Mail agreed that Hillary Clinton could face prosecution if the probe determines that the former Secretary of State did not take appropriate measures in securing the data that passed through, and was stored on, her private server.
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