The FBI is declining to comment about a three hour interview with presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton about the use of a private email server while she served as Secretary of State. “Out of respect for the investigative process, she will not comment further on her interview”, Nick Merrill, a Clinton spokesman, said in a statement. And he says when Attorney General Loretta Lynch “meets secretly” with former President Bill Clinton just days before the interview, it “raises serious concerns about special treatment”.
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The FBI is investigating whether Clinton and her aides mishandled any classified information on a private email server she used while serving as Secretary of State.
Lynch announced Friday that she would rely on the recommendations of FBI investigators and career prosecutors to determine whether to press charges over the private server usage.
He accused her on Friday of having “initiated and demanded” her husband’s meeting with Ms Lynch.
Clinton’s likely Republican rival, Donald Trump, has scheduled his own rally in the state the same day. Shortly afterward, two black SUVs were seen returning to Clinton’s house in the capital.
Trump later tweeted an image quoting a Fox News’ poll, saying Hillary Clinton was “the most corrupt candidate ever”. But it added to the Clinton campaign’s headaches over the email probe, which they had hoped to put behind them before the Democratic convention later this month.
Still, it’s awkward for Democrats to have Federal Bureau of Investigation agents question Clinton mere weeks before their party formally nominates her for president.
Agents have already interviewed top Clinton aides including her former State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, a longtime aide who is now the vice chairwoman of Clinton’s campaign. Clinton had come under fire when it was revealed that she used a personal email server kept in her Chappaqua, New York, home while she was the secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton is expected to be formally nominated as the Democratic candidate for the November 8 presidential election at the party’s convention in less than four weeks.
“I certainly wouldn’t do it again, and it has cast a shadow”, Lynch said.
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In this March 12, 2012 file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her mobile phone after her address to the Security Council at United Nations headquarters. Trump has called his opponent “Crooked Hillary” and said she can not be trusted in the White House.
