Hillary Clinton gave her first presidential candidate televised national interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.
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Moreover, when asked by Trey Gowdy, a Republican member of the committee, whether Clinton’s statement that no classified material was transmitted through her private email account to others was true, Comey replied in the negative.
In her interview with FBI investigators, Clinton said she believed “everyone at State” knew she had a personal email address, and she did not recall receiving any emails she thought should not be on an unclassified system.
However, there has been no evidence that the hacking were successful.
According to Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton decided in December 2014 that she no longer needed access to any of her emails older than 60 days.
Two years ago the Justice Department said FBI agents should begin recording interviews, but only involving “individuals in federal custody, after they have been arrested but before their initial appearance” in court.
Clinton, in a critical decision-making position at the time, refused to use the official server (@gov.us) and instead, used her private email server (@clinton.com) where allegedly she sent and received classified and sensitive information linked with her role as secretary of state.
“Clinton did not recall receiving any emails she thought should not have been on an unclassified system”, reads a summary of the FBI’s findings from July. She even told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that she didn’t get guidance about how to communicate with the president, confirming she sent Barack Obama a message from her plane during a visit to Russian Federation. What could be gleaned was a four-year tenure of “extremely reckless behavior” and a secretary of state who didn’t have the most basic knowledge of email or classified documents.
Since it came to light that Hillary Clinton ran a private email server during her time as Secretary of State, that computer’s security has become a subject of controversy among politicos whose only notion of a “server” until recently was a waiter carrying canapés at a fundraising dinner. The FBI interview also says Powell told Clinton, “Be very careful”.
“While her use of a single email account was clearly a mistake and she has taken responsibility for it, these materials make clear why the Justice Department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case”, Brian Fallon, a campaign spokesman, said in his statement.
The bureau investigated Clinton’s server use to determine whether classified information was illegally stored or distributed, and for any sign that hackers might have accessed information without authorization. “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”.
Fallout from Clinton’s use of a private email server continues to dog the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign, as her lead over her Republican counterpart Donald Trump has been cut in half since her post convention bounce last month, according to CNN’s Poll of Polls released Thursday.
Clinton stated that at least a hundred people had her email address and that her contact info was available to several State employees, to defend herself from the accusation of having a personal email as, in some way, secret channel of communication.
He told her that if it became known she had used her BlackBerry to “do business” her emails could become “official record”.
Clinton told investigators that she thought “nonpaper” was a document with no official heading that can not be attributed to the US government.
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The secretary also mentioned in her interview that she had communicated for former Secretary of State Colin Powell about the use of a non-state email, and he said that anything in writing would be a government record so she wasn’t concerned about bypassing government record-keeping guidelines.
