As Guy has been writing about all week, Hillary Clinton has been forced by the FBI to turn over the personal email server she used during her time at Secretary of State to conduct official government business.
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“In the meantime, her team has worked with the State Department to ensure her emails are stored in a safe and secure manne”, Merrill said.
“I am confident that I never sent or received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received”, she said at an event in Iowa last month.
The back-and-forth – in the same week that Clinton provided the Justice Department her private email server – suggests that trusted Clinton aides may also face scrutiny over emails and records in their possession.
For almost six months, the public and the media have been trying to determine whether the controversy surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a personal email account and server while working at the State Department was reflective of anything more than poor judgment on her part. Two of them have information that has now been labeled classified, while another two are also said to have housed classified information, though it’s unclear if the State Department agrees. The State Department disputes that the emails were classified at that time. A late July CNN/ORC poll found that 58% of all registered voters say it is extremely important that the next president be honest and trustworthy.
The declaration by Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III, however, ramped up the stakes, because security officials had been less concerned about the arrangement if information was classified no higher than “Secret”.
But a State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the most recent concerns about Clinton’s emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that only could have come from the intelligence community.
At a presser in March of this year, Hillary Clinton commented that she used a private email system because she wanted the convenience of carrying just one personal device. The drives contain around 30,000 emails that Clinton deemed work-related and turned over to the State Department.
“It’s about time”, House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement after the front-runner for the Democratic nomination announced that she was directing that the server be relinquished.
A spokesperson for Clinton tried to argue “that Clinton couldn’t have been aware that the material was classified because it wasn’t specifically marked”. As governor of Florida, he kept a private email account and server, like Clinton.
Campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri crafted a Medium post Wednesday that warns the public against “misinformation” being dispersed regarding Clinton’s personal email system, alleging that there exists “no criminal inquiry” into Clinton’s email.
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“That determination was confirmed by the proper interagency process and classification authorities, and its implications are being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation”. Samuel “Sandy” Berger, a Clinton administration national security adviser, pleaded guilty in 2005 to violating the same law for removing documents from the National Archives.
