On Friday, the FBI released 58 pages of documents from its investigation into Clinton’s email use.
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The Clinton campaign team is pleased the findings are now out in the open.
“When asked about the email chain containing ‘(C)’ portion markings that State determined to now contain CONFIDENTIAL information, Clinton stated that she did not know what the ‘(C)’ meant at the beginning of the paragraphs and speculated it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order”.
Mrs Clinton’s use of private e-mail has dogged her campaign for more than a year, prompting accusations from Republicans, including rival Donald Trump, that she is unfit for the nation’s highest office and weighing on her public support. Reportedly, Hanley said she forgot to provide the laptop and thumb drive to Clinton’s staff at the time.
At the core of the FBI’s criminal investigation were two questions: Was classified information sent through the server?
Clinton’s server was found to have more than 2,000 emails with classified material.
Clinton told agents thatshe generally received classified material in personal briefings or on paper, which she read in specially prepared secure facilities, and that she didn’t remember ever receiving an email that she thought shouldn’t be sent through the unclassified system.
But when she was shown copies of e-mails marked “Confidential” and “Top Secret/SAP”, she said she did not believe those e-mails contained classified information.
“In a follow-up Federal Bureau of Investigation interview on May 3, 2016, — Indicated he believed he had an “oh s-t” moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported.PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton’s emails”, the report stated.
According to the 58-page document, Clinton told the Federal Bureau of Investigation as many as 39 times that she did not “recall” or remember key elements of the training or classified information process.
Clinton’s central selling point to voters is that her eight years in the White House as first lady, eight years as a US senator and four years as secretary of state make her one of the most experienced candidates ever to run for president.
The FBI in July ended a year-long inquiry into whether she broke the law by using a private server.
“Powell further advised Clinton, ‘Be very careful”. Shown one July 2012 email she exchanged with President Barack Obama at his own highly secure address, Clinton indicated that she recalled sending the note on an airplane during a trip to Russian Federation. “Based on her doctor’s advice, she could only work at State for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she received”.
Clinton’s campaign headquarters swiftly responded to the document’s publication, saying that the report proves the US Department of Justice’s decision to not file an indictment and to close the case against the former US Secretary of State.
The majority of those email chains were not initiated by Clinton, but by aides or other State Department officials. In addition, the classification determination process administered by the US Department of State (State) in connection with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation identified approximately 2,000 additional emails now classified CONFIDENTIAL and 1 email now classified SECRET, which FBI investigation determined were transmitted and stored on at least two of Clinton’s personal server systems. In an ABC News-Washington Post poll last month, 59 percent of those surveyed said they find Clinton to be not honest and trustworthy.
The U.S. Department of Justice followed that recommendation, and decided no prosecution was merited.
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It is plausible Mrs. Clinton consciously hid Benghazi-related emails, and the American people deserve to know if that indeed happened.
