'There's a lot of jeopardy': Is Hillary Clinton's email investigation drawing to a close?

'Typically, the way we structured investigations when I was a federal prosecutor is that we would seek to interview the target last.'

Movement within the FBI leads former officials and legal experts to suspect its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server has finally come to a head - from which it will quickly rupture and dissipate.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - While federal prosecutors and FBI investigators have been interviewing, researching and have been generally busy with Clinton's private email server and email use, it would seem all that is left is to interview the woman herself.

Steven Levin, a former federal prosecutor and current partner at law firm Levin & Curlett, explained the interview "certainly sends the signal that they are nearing an end to their investigation."

Levin went on to explain how he worked during his time as a federal employee and what the current federal investigative team's movements mean for Clinton.

"Typically, the way we structured investigations when I was a federal prosecutor is that we would seek to interview the target last," he told The Hill. "As you begin to interview people who are extremely close to the target of an investigation - people who are considered confidants ... you typically interview those people towards the final stages of the investigation.

"So that way they tell you something that is contrary to something you've already learned, you can immediately challenge them on that information."

Clinton's ongoing investigation has created several critics - all of whom believe she should be ineligible to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Should she be charged with federal offenses, the primaries, the caucuses and the fallen Democratic competitors, will have all been for naught.

Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney who is currently the head of watchdog group the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, explained, "There's a lot of jeopardy that is going to happen in this interview. It's very high-stakes."

He believes the best hope Clinton has if to ensure her story aligns with the stories her aides gave when they were interviewed last month. Whitaker added, "They're only going to ask her questions that they know the answers to already."

How he knows she will only be asked questions she has prepared for remains unknown, but should his statement prove to be true, the point of the investigation would be little more than an act for the American public's sake.

Much of the evidence - over 2,000 emails now considered classified - has been presented without the original send dates, creating a series of potholes for prosecutors to navigate.

"Was this simply a sloppy handling of documents, or was it knowing and intentional mishandling of classified information?" Barry Pollack, a lawyer at Miller & Chevalier asked before explaining the two ways in which prosecutors can prove Clinton guilty.

Prosecutors must find a clear pattern of Clinton or her aides sending emails with information that is, without a doubt, sensitive, or they must prove the server was created specifically to circumvent the laws and rules of national security.

Even if prosecutors are unable to prove Clinton guilty under either case, national security lawyer Bradley Moss explained she would still be found guilty of misdemeanors related to her possession of classified information and her removal of that information to the private server - even if she did so unknowingly.

The FBI did not release any new information concerning the investigation and a U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia spokesman has declined to comment.

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