DrHarleyboy, like i said IF EVERY FBI inquiry (repeat inquiry is a synonym for investigation) then and only then could you say the FBI's inquiry is a criminal one .. if that's the case then ok, but you have supplied any evidence that that is the fact .. i've read for one that an investigation (inquiry) may not be considered a criminal one until it is completed, and that only then would the investigating authority decide if it were criminal or not .. consider this
the word criminal does not appear in that one so the Inspectors General referral was not a criminal referral.
Now to your
"In the same brief, the DOJ referred to the investigation of Mrs. Clinton as a law enforcement proceeding.
That was the first public acknowledgment by the DOJ that it is investigating criminal behavior — a law enforcement proceeding — and it directly contradicts Mrs. Clinton's oft-repeated assertions that the FBI investigation is merely a routine review of the State Department's classification procedures."
in which your libertarian Reason suggest that EVERY " law enforcement proceeding" is a criminal matter.
You'd have to give me a credible link saying that is true.