Officials will likely want to interview Clinton and her senior aides about the server when the Federal Bureau of Investigation concludes its probe in several months, the Post said, citing current and former officials. Anyone who has been following this story knows that over 2,000 of Clinton’s emails were deemed to contain some level of classified material, but the Clinton camp and the State Department have claimed all of this material was being retroactively classified or “upgraded”.
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FBI and Justice Department spokesmen would not discuss the investigation.
The FBI probe of the emails is not expected to be completed yet for months, placing its outcome in the midst of the presidential campaign.
Last March, Clinton came under fire for using her personal email account and server for official purposes when she served as U.S. secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Brian Fallon, a Clinton spokesman, said in a statement that Clinton’s campaign was “pleased” that Pagliano was cooperating.
The development comes as Clinton wages a tense campaign for the Democratic White House nomination against Bernie Sanders.
The emails released publicly show some Clinton aides sent the sensitive information, often from the State Department’s unclassified email system, to others, and eventually to Clinton at her private email address. She has also apologized for what she said was poor judgment.
With the completion of the email review, FBI investigators are expected to shift their focus on whether the highly sensitive government information, including top secret and other classified matters, found on Clinton’s private email server constitutes a crime.
Clinton and the State Department have said that none of the material was marked classified at the time it was sent. The department on February 29 released its final batch of e-mails, bringing the total number of pages published to more than 52,000.
The agency said in January that it was withholding from release 22 emails that included “top secret” information.
Clinton’s campaign said the withheld emails represent “over-classification run amok”. Both Lynch and FBI Director James Comey have said the investigation is being handled without regard for politics.
“I am very close personally to that investigation to ensure that we have the resources we need, including people and technology, and that it’s done the way the FBI tries to do all of its work: independently, competently and promptly”.
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Information for this article was contributed by Del Quentin Wilber, Jennifer Epstein, Andrew Harris and Ben Brody of Bloomberg News and by Adam Goldman, Rosalind S. Helderman, Julie Tate and Matt Zapotosky of The Washington Post.
