FBI Clinton probe prompted by espionage fears, secret letters say...

[MickeyW]

Two secret letters the FBI sent to the State Department have revealed for the first time that the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, and the classified emails sent through it, stemmed from a so-called "Section 811" referral from the Intelligence Community's Inspector General (ICIG). The ICIG determined that classified, national security information in Clinton's emails may have been "compromised" and shared with "a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power."

Section 811 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1995 "is the statutory authority that governs the coordination of counterespionage investigations between Executive Branch departments or agencies and the FBI." A Section 811 referral is a report to the FBI about any unauthorized information that may have been disclosed to a foreign power.
https://news.vice.com/article/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-investigation-section-811

 

[Moot]

So...are the "two secret FBI letters sent to the State Department" the same "two sworn declarations" from IC that McCullough mentioned in his letter dated Jan. 14, 2016?

"...In a letter sent to the heads of congressional oversight committees on *January 14, 2016* Charles McCullough, the intelligence community's inspector general, said he received two sworn declarations from Intelligence Community members who determined that Clinton's communications contained information deemed to be "CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET/SAP."...

Additionally, the FBI said it intends to release to VICE News on August 5 two letters the FBI sent to the State Department about its investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server and is "evaluating" whether it can also release secret declarations the bureau's FOIA chief filed earlier this year with the federal judge presiding over our case describing how the public release of any documents would have harmed the FBI's investigation while it was still ongoing."

https://news.vice.com/article/exclu...ied-emails-on-private-server-with-three-aides


"...The two [FBI] letters, dated October 23, 2015 and *January 20, 2016*, and marked "For Official Use Only," were written by Peter Strzok and Charles H. Kable IV, the section chiefs of the FBI's counterespionage section, and sent to Gregory B. Starr, the assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security. They were written while the FBI was investigating Clinton's use of an unsecure, private email server and the dissemination of classified information...."

https://news.vice.com/article/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-investigation-section-811​