They included details about the (potentially illegal) destruction of some of the 13 different mobile devices that were used to access Clinton’s private email account, which she used for official State Department business and the deletion of emails from Clinton’s private email server by her staff months after she was directed to preserve any evidence.
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She is the Democratic nominee for president.
Mrs. Clinton said some sensitive conversations were “part of the routine deliberation” that didn’t require special care, according to the FBI’s notes from the interview.
The email scandal started this year when the FBI started investigating the use of private and locked accounts s in government’ communications in the interest of transparency.
Clinton has repeatedly said her use of private email was allowed. It is the first disclosure of details provided by Bryan Pagliano, the staff member who set up and maintained Clinton’s IT infrastructure.
Taken together, the documents paint the picture of a thorough FBI and Justice Department investigation. The FBI cited exemptions protecting national security and investigative techniques.
“Much too much” has been made over the FBI’s report that Hillary Clinton didn’t know the “C” markings on her emails meant they were confidential, and Americans shouldn’t be too concerned, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
That passage of the report – and many others – led to widespread criticism of Clinton’s email practices and her statements defending them. The FBI report details steps taken by Clinton’s staff that appear meant to hamper the recovery of deleted data, including smashing her old Blackberry smartphones with a hammer and using special software to wipe the hard drive of a server she had used.
In total, more than 2100 pieces of classified information were found on Clinton’s private server. Comey has indicated that the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered thousands of work-related emails that Clinton had not turned over but said the agency found no effort to purposely delete or hide emails. They handed over about 30,000 emails to the State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, and deleted the rest. “It’s a very black-and-white order”.
The FBI said it can not be sure foreign entities did not gain access to classified material Clinton sent or received while serving as President Barack Obama’s first secretary of state.
The incomplete records of the Hillary Clinton email investigation released by the FBI raise questions about the conduct not only of Clinton but of her top aides and the staffers working under their direction.
“She said she believed the “(c)” in several emails could happen to be a paragraph listing format. 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.
She couldn’t give an example of how classification of a document was determined and said “she relied on career foreign service professionals to appropriately mark and handle classified information”. But for the most part, the FBI investigates, and the Justice Department prosecutes.
The FBI documents – released under pressure of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits – assure that Clinton will be grappling with the issue of her e-mails as the presidential campaign enters the final stretch into the November 8 election. “If you’re for her, you sort of roll your eyes and say I’ve got to deal with this”.
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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.
