Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses the American Legion’s 98th National Convention at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati on August 30, 2016.
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Besides the 11-page interview summary, the FBI also released other details of its investigation into her use of an unauthorized private email system while running the State Department, in which it concluded she mishandled classified information but not in a way that warranted a criminal prosecution.
The FBI has declined to prosecute Clinton over questions regarding her use of private email server while Secretary of State, but the issue has dogged her campaign and fueled one of Trump’s main line of attacks.
Clinton told FBI investigators she did not recall sending or receiving anything on her private email account that she thought belonged on a classified server. When he announced his team’s decision not to bring charges against Clinton after her interview in July, Comey said, “In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we can not find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts”, Comey said.
In response to FBI requests for classification determinations in support of this investigation, US Intelligence Community (USIC) agencies determined that 81 email chains, bc which FBI investigation determined were transmitted and stored on Clinton’ s UNCLASSIFIED personal server systems, contained classified information ranging from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET/SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM levels at the time they were sent between 2009-2013. She indicated that she believed her records were being preserved when she emailed other State Department officials at their government addresses.
Also, a critical finding: Most of the employees interviewed declared they did not know that Clinton used a private server to communicate State matters and discovered this only when it became publicly investigated.
The State Department, under court order, released tens of thousands of her e-mails a year ago on a monthly schedule.
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.
The FBI has made public the investigation made on Hillary Clinton’s use of her personal e-mail with regards to processing classified data. Clinton said no one at the State Department raised concerns during her tenure, and she said everyone with whom she exchanged emails knew she was using a private email address. Information in 68 of those email chains remains classified, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to State Department documents released by Judicial Watch, Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin was working on securing diplomatic passports for Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band and an associate.
“She said she believed the “(c)” in several emails could happen to be a paragraph listing format.
He registered the domain clintonemail.com a week before Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state and shut down the private server in 2011 when someone tried to hack it.
“There’s a lot of information that isn’t at all classified”.
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked Clinton about the exchange, she told them that she took Powell to mean work-related communications would be government records and said in any event Powell’s comments “did not factor into her decision to use a personal e-mail account”, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation records.
“I’ve been asked many, many questions in the past year about emails”.
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Clinton herself has called her use of a private email account a “mistake”.
