The investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email is being run out of FBI headquarters - and that's unusual
"Nearly all [FBI] investigations are assigned to one of the bureau's 56 field offices," according to the Times.
"But given this inquiry's importance, senior F.B.I. officials have opted to keep it closely held in Washington in the agency's counterintelligence section, which investigates how national security secrets are handled."
'They're worried about it'
Massimo Calabresi of TIME notes that the law "makes it a crime not just to knowingly mishandle such secrets, but also to use them 'in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States.'"
Consequently, a senior intelligence official familiar with the case told TIME, the FBI's investigation "will go way beyond what the intelligence community's Inspector General ever would do."
The FBI is seeking to determine who at the State Department passed highly classified information to Clinton's account in 2009 and 2011. Given the FBI involvement, the Clinton campaign is getting nervous as the investigation intensifies.
'How did they secure it?'
The new server was run by Bryan Pagliano, who had worked as the IT director on Hillary Clinton's campaign before joining the State Department in May 2009. In 2013 - the same year she left the State Department - Clinton hired the Denver-based company Platte River Networks to oversee the system.
Facing criticism earlier this year for exclusively using a private server during her time as secretary of state, Clinton handed over 30,000 work-related emails for the State Department to make public. She also deleted 31,000 emails that she says were personal.?
It's unclear if any sensitive information was stored on the server while under Platte River's oversight. Platte River "is not cleared" to have access to classified material, Cindy McGovern, chief public affairs officer for the Defense Security Service, told The Daily Caller.