The biggest risk, according to one senior DoJ source not involved with the case but familiar with some of its activities, is not that Clinton could be indicted but that some of her team could be judged to have strayed close to the line and the DoJ could feel duty-bound to say so.
Suppose, for example, a State judge having power under the naturalization [p391] laws to admit aliens to citizenship should utter false certificates of naturalization, can it be doubted that he could be indicted under the act of Congress providing penalties for that offence, even though he might also, under the State laws, be indictable for forgery as well as liable to impeachment?
Now that simmering scuttlebutt has come to a boil this week, after reports emerged over the weekend that Lay could be indicted within a fortnight.
They are worried about Trump's assault on press freedom and express fear that journalists could be indicted for the first time in US history.
Still, former officials said anyone singled out would know, based on the United States government's actions against other Russian operatives, that they could be indicted or targeted with sanctions.
He later ruled that Terteryan could be indicted and tried as an adult.
It questioned Comey's decision to send two letters to Congress in the final days of the 2016 campaign, setting the media aflame with speculation that Clinton could be indicted.
Indeed, one of the objections that has been raised about the treaty that would set up the International Criminal Court is that Mr. Kissinger could be indicted for the role he played as a member of the Nixon administration both in the 1968 bombing of Cambodia and in the overthrow of the Chilean government that brought Mr. Pinochet to power.
Abbott said it was "bizarre" that a governor could be indicted for exercising his constitutional authority.
US armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the international criminal court's chief prosecutor has said in a report, raising the possibility that American citizens could be indicted even though Washington has not joined the global court.
